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  • Artist(s): Andrya Ambro, Sarah Register
  • Summary: The second full-length release for the Brooklyn noise-rock duo of Andrya Ambro and Sarah Register emphasizes melodies.
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  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
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  1. 90
    This 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.
  2. Jan 11, 2013
    80
    Their second full length album, Sunshine--which had its US release back in October--wonderfully demonstrates the finesse necessary to play noise rock.
  3. Mojo
    Jan 18, 2013
    80
    Dreamy and cacophonous. [Feb 2013, p.98]
  4. Oct 25, 2012
    70
    On their sophomore LP, Sunshine, they keep to their twitchy aesthetic-hopping.
  5. Jan 18, 2013
    70
    The music is complex, but not in a Phillip Glass orchestral kind of way.
  6. Nov 8, 2012
    70
    Talk 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.
  7. Q Magazine
    Jan 24, 2013
    40
    Talk 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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