Sunshine

on talk normal's sophomore lp sunshine, the brooklyn duo unveil songs that sparkle with melody and dissonance. jarring rhythms and feedback-drenched guitar tones lace sunshine's nine surprisingly songful tunes - creating a sound informed by their predecessors (cocteau twins, velvet underground, laurie anderson & creatures), but strikingly new. unlike traditional noisy-rock, talk normal's sunshine is steeped in melody, albeit unconventional melody. sweet-sounding female vocals are present throughout, sometimes as sung lyrics and sometimes as instruments themselves. ambro & register's combined voices often volley back and forth, each providing equal contributions to vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation - meticulously orchestrating not only the arrangements, but also the tonality of each collected sound. as pitchfork describes: "(their) vocals can handle both desperate screech and matter-of-fact detachment somewhere between karen o and kim gordon".