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MojoDec 12, 2011Drum-heavy powerpop is more comfortable in bleached denim and white trainers, about three decades too late for assured heavy rotation on MTV.
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Sep 20, 2011More than anything, Big Talk reflects the Vegas background of its middling maestro.
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Jul 28, 2011What we have is an attempt to boil down old cliches into something fresh, but instead reducing them to the lowest thing rock music: a boring album.
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Q MagazineAug 16, 2011Big Talk are less grandoise and more low-key than his dayjob, thought, and these 12 tracks do sag in the middle when this eponymous debut takes a detour into pub rock with No Whiskey and Girl At Sunrise. [Sept. 2011, p. 103]
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Jul 15, 2011Vannucci's listless voice does the songs few favours, either: he's nobody's idea of a commanding presence at the microphone.
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Jul 18, 2011It's much more fun than the Brandon Flowers album. Which, admittedly, isn't very big talk at all.
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Jul 15, 2011Halfway in, Vannucci finds his feet with the bluesy No Whiskey, before an impeccable run of spry, sun-kissed alt-country numbers announce him as Las Vegas's answer to Tom Petty.
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UncutAug 18, 2011Basically Big Talk is how The Killers might sound if, rather than combining Bruce Springsteen and the Pet Shop Boys, they settle for blending Kings of Leon with ELO. [Sep 2011, p.79]
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