Sugarland

Talk Normal are Brooklyn-based duo: guitarist Sarah Register & drummer Andrya Ambro.

A year after forming in 2007 the pair self-released 'Secret Cog', an EP filled with rigorous beats; post-punk dissonance; and their darkly evocative vocals.

Echoes of no wave-era noisemakers - particularly the dogmatic rants of Lydia Lunch's Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - were unmistakable. But the duo also has firm roots in the present New York underground, specifically the noise-rock of veteran trio, Sightings, whose Richard Hoffman guested on the best track on 'Secret Cog', "33".

The hype around Talk Normal saw them sign to Rare Book Room Records & cut their debut full-length, 'Sugarland', with producer & label-owner Nicolas Vernhes (Silver Jews / Fischerspooner / Animal Collective / Black Dice).

With 'Sugarland', Talk Normal's sound has stormed upward & outward, a jarringly songful gale of rhythm & noise supporting pleas & plaints; signal-calls & marching orders; darkness & light; fury; silence; space & sound...

"Stripped-back & serrated music that could cut someone's heart out through a fortified igloo."
-RATEYOURMUSIC.COM

"The band's propensity for thick noise & rhythmic tension hasn't waned. In fact, the essential grit & guts of their music have deepened... The way the pair rides these patterns to bracing climaxes is deft & relentless... The cavernous territory first dug out by the early dirges of Sonic Youth & Swans."
-PITCHFORK