Formed in 2007, Brooklyn, New York, United States duo Talk Normal have already been compared to 19
70s No Wave. Indeed, the scratchy guitars of their debut mini-album
Secret Cog evoke the mangled bursts of
DNA’s Arto Lindsay, and their spilling songs reach the structured abstraction of No Wave’s most unclassifiable group,
Ut. A lot of other rock history comes into play. The clipped tension that connects
Sonic Youth,
Pylon and
Erase Errata comes through in the chiming chords and sharp rhythms of “
Eureka” and “
Lemonade”. Unlike with those groups, there’s not much to dance to here. Thei…
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