THAO, “Fossils”

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down were laid to rest in 2021, and from the ashes THAO has risen. The following year the singer-songwriter released the song " Ambition " and covered Björk , and now she's finally back with "Fossils," her first new single in six years and her return to Kill Rock Stars.

"'Fossils' is both a red-flag warning and an encouragement," THAO says. "I’m saying I can see it all, I can zoom out and up and see how I and we will have reached the end, frozen in these protective stances. The danger of underliving our lives is real, is in every isolationist choice we make. However, we can continually decide to be different. It takes enormous amounts of work to metabolize fear instead of being based in it. It is so easy to slip into the grooves of self protection."

The tune has a triumphant singalong moment at the end featuring co-producers Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner of Tune-Yards, her Bay Area Monday Night Dinner crew (including chef and Salt Fat Acid Heat author Samin Nosrat, writer Sarah Rich, and KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal), friends and their children, colleagues, and fans who sent in recordings. It comes with a music video directed by Linda Mai Green; watch below.

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