BIO: Sarah Register and Andrya Ambro allied as TALK NORMAL in 2007, after years of friendship, and haven't stopped moving. TALK NORMAL is part of a long lineage of musicians who took their tools and ideas outside of the existing comfort zone and created a new one - DNA, Laurie Anderson, Sonic Youth, The Creatures, Public Image Ltd., Cocteau Twins - regardless of whether your ears perceive their presence or influence here. Since their lightning-strike first appearance, TALK NORMAL's sound has stormed upward and outward, referencing few and relating to many, a jarringly songful gale of rhythm and noise supporting pleas and plaints, signal-calls and marching orders. Each show builds on past ones: up-to-the-moment updates of ideas previously stated, new phrasings of old upheavals delivered with increasing focus and joy. Darkness and light; fury, silence, space and sound.

Press quotes :
Pitchfork 7.8.
[“In a Strangeland”] is no carbon copy. Andrya Ambro's drumming is a distinctive combo of clicking energy and depth-plunging stomp, while [the band’s] vocals can handle both desperate screech and matter-of-fact detachment somewhere between Karen O and Kim Gordon…. The assured confidence of "In a Strangeland'' is a result of inspiration, not imitation."
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13662-sugarland/

file under: No wave, DNA, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Lydia Lunch