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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 25, 2012On their sophomore LP, Sunshine, they keep to their twitchy aesthetic-hopping.
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Jan 18, 2013The music is complex, but not in a Phillip Glass orchestral kind of way.
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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 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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MojoJan 18, 2013Dreamy and cacophonous. [Feb 2013, p.98]
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Oct 24, 2012Sunshine turns simple words and sounds into something larger.
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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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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.