let’s get some crazy talk

It’s a bit hard to describe how I feel about Talk Normal right now.  The best I can come up with is a twisted combination between adoration bordering on idol worship, and utter fear that if I ever see them live I will leave with about half the sanity I arrived with (similar to my first HEALTH experience).  One thing I can assuredly say, though, is that this band is the only modern post-rock band I’ve heard recently that has managed to wrangle down the bull that is the coveted Sonic Youth sound and given it many burning brands of its own touch without, well, dementing the thing.

Their full length album coming out in October, entitled Sugarland, is chock full of all the things we love: tribal drums, nails-down-a-chalkboard guitar squeals, and oddly hook heavy melodic lines.  They insert themselves into your head and bring you back to your strangest moments and deepest fears, but more in the way a prophet leads you to a higher consciousness.

Not only have these two girls been setting a truly epic battleground of a soundscape only since 2007, but also have played with what seems like a hundred bands, including FMLY faves such as DD/MM/YYYY, Marnie Stern, and Indian Jewelry. Now please excuse me while I go blow out my brain with this stuff. Sanity is overrated.

Talk Normal- In A Strangeland