Talk Normal

No wave-inspired noise-rock duo Talk Normal consists of drummer/vocalist Andrya Ambro and guitarist/vocalist Sarah Register. The pair joined forces in 2007 and began issuing CD-Rs of music that carried on the tradition of angular, cerebrally noisy acts ranging from <a href="spotify:artist:03MpGjIGzAU3Kojn67mohB">Ut</a>, DNA, <a href="spotify:artist:5UqTO8smerMvxHYA5xsXb6">Sonic Youth</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:1qu76fyhxnnFHJagsVOs1D">Teenage Jesus & the Jerks</a> to <a href="spotify:artist:4lpCk4elOX2vusSgqHVT56">Magik Markers</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1DaEMMwvLv5S6EpTBJMWBt">Sightings</a>. <a href="spotify:artist:1DaEMMwvLv5S6EpTBJMWBt">Sightings</a>' bassist Richard Hoffman appeared on Talk Normal's first official release, the 2008 EP Secret Cog. The following year, they embarked on tours with like-minded acts such as <a href="spotify:artist:1aUrrP7FvE1BLFyMethRDs">Tall Firs</a>, US Girls, and <a href="spotify:artist:7hrSfpo9kZdORm4y8ujxu2">AIDS Wolf</a>; that fall, their full-length debut, Sugarland, arrived. After releasing a single and a split EP with Thurston Moore in 2011, Talk Normal's more melodic but still challenging second album Sunshine arrived. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi