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Oct 30, 201280While 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, 201280Sunshine shows a strong working dynamic between the two members of Talk Normal that can only continue to strengthen.
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Oct 25, 201270On their sophomore LP, Sunshine, they keep to their twitchy aesthetic-hopping.
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Jan 11, 201380Their 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 24, 201270The balance of melody to unease is rarely this well maneuvered.
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Oct 24, 201270This is a violent force of targeted creativity.
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Jan 18, 201380Dreamy and cacophonous. [Feb 2013, p.98]
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Feb 1, 201360With a little less mess, and a little more hook, the band might find some truly zealous followers.
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Oct 24, 201277Sunshine turns simple words and sounds into something larger.
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Jan 24, 201340Talk Normal have made an album that's by turns thrilling, frustrating and annoying, often within the same song. [Feb 2013, p.111]
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Feb 11, 201390This 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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Jan 18, 201370The music is complex, but not in a Phillip Glass orchestral kind of way.
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Nov 8, 201270Talk 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.