[ Rare Book Room Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 18 January 2010
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Talk Normal could be the love-child of Sonic Youth and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs... A very frightening, emotional love-child, fond of howling; screaming; and talking nonsensically into a microphone over weird 'n' wonderful noises.
Talk Normal are Brooklyn-based duo: guitarist Sarah Register & drummer Andrya Ambro.
A year after forming in 2007 the pair self-released 'Secret Cog', an EP filled with rigorous beats; post-punk dissonance; and their darkly evocative vocals.
Echoes of no wave-era noisemakers - particularly the dogmatic rants of Lydia Lunch's Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - were unmistakable. But the duo also has firm roots in the present New York underground, specifically the noise-rock of veteran trio, Sightings, whose Richard Hoffman guested on the best track on 'Secret Cog', "33".
The hype around Talk Normal saw them sign to Rare Book Room Records & cut their debut full-length, 'Sugarland', with producer & label-owner Nicolas Vernhes (Silver Jews / Fischerspooner / Animal Collective / Black Dice).
With 'Sugarland', Talk Normal's sound has stormed upward & outward, a jarringly songful gale of rhythm & noise supporting pleas & plaints; signal-calls & marching orders; darkness & light; fury; silence; space & sound...
"Stripped-back & serrated music that could cut someone's heart out through a fortified igloo."
-RATEYOURMUSIC.COM
"The band's propensity for thick noise & rhythmic tension hasn't waned. In fact, the essential grit & guts of their music have deepened... The way the pair rides these patterns to bracing climaxes is deft & relentless... The cavernous territory first dug out by the early dirges of Sonic Youth & Swans."
-PITCHFORK
1. Hot Song -- 4:05
2. In a Strangeland -- 3:28
3. Bold Face -- 4:37
4. Mosquito -- 3:48
5. Transmission Lost -- 5:53
6. River's Edge -- 5:27
7. In Every Dream Home a Heartache -- 6:07
8. Uniforms -- 3:36
9. Warrior -- 3:55
10. Outside -- 4:32