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Feb 11, 2013This is a great record. Talk Normal are clearly indebted to the foundations of post-punk and no wave, but crucially they never feel like a throwback.
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MojoJan 18, 2013Dreamy and cacophonous. [Feb 2013, p.98]
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Jan 11, 2013Their second full length album, Sunshine--which had its US release back in October--wonderfully demonstrates the finesse necessary to play noise rock.
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Oct 30, 2012While Sugarland's alien rawness is missed occasionally, Sunshine reveals a Talk Normal that is a little more immediate and a lot more assured.
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Oct 24, 2012Sunshine shows a strong working dynamic between the two members of Talk Normal that can only continue to strengthen.
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Oct 24, 2012Sunshine turns simple words and sounds into something larger.
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Jan 18, 2013The music is complex, but not in a Phillip Glass orchestral kind of way.
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Nov 8, 2012Talk Normal invoke the bare and abstract, not the fully rendered or figured, and it feels like they are making not only the kind of music we never thought we'd be missing out on, but also the kind that would be hard to live without.
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Oct 25, 2012On their sophomore LP, Sunshine, they keep to their twitchy aesthetic-hopping.
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Oct 24, 2012The balance of melody to unease is rarely this well maneuvered.
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Oct 24, 2012This is a violent force of targeted creativity.
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Feb 1, 2013With a little less mess, and a little more hook, the band might find some truly zealous followers.
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Q MagazineJan 24, 2013Talk Normal have made an album that's by turns thrilling, frustrating and annoying, often within the same song. [Feb 2013, p.111]