Thao Nguyen has announced that her first album in six years—and first solo album outside of her slate of releases as Thao with the Get Down Stay Down or with the songwriter Mirah since 2005—will arrive on October 30 via Kill Rock Stars. Show Me was produced by Thao alongside Nate Brenner (also a co-writer) and Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards. Tune-Yards is also featured on the LP, alongside The Linda Lindas, Neko Case, and Black Pumas’s Adrian Quesada.
Regarding lead single “Sick of the Times,” which features the aforementioned Linda Lindas and Tune-Yards, Nguyen said: “I wanted it to be an anthem that will be used at political rallies, grass roots organizing and mutual aid events, anything that can help us emotionally prepare to activate and to stay politically engaged at all levels, but especially at the local level. We need to keep each other buoyant, to remind ourselves we’ve got the numbers and the imperative.”
Check out “Sick of the Times” below, and pre-order Show Me here.
