A pivotal, early release of electronic new wave, this single oddly gained more notoriety for its B-side, "Warm Leatherette." Amidst jolting zaps, pops, and blipping skips, Daniel Miller robotically intones about the pleasures of car crash as foreplay: "A tear of petrol is in your eye/The hand brake penetrates your thigh/Quick -- let's make love/Before you die." The track sounds like a darkly cartoonish version of a malfunctioning dot matrix printer: clinically pristine, minimal, and sinister. A brief...   [ read more ]

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Since their lightning-strike first appearance, Talk Normal's sound has stormed upward and outward, referencing nothing but relating to almost everything, a jarringly songful gale of rhythm and noise supporting pleas and plaints, signal-calls and marching orders. Each Talk Normal 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.

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VINYL FORMAT. Limited to 500 copies! Talk Normal just played the WFMU fest with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and are now on a six week US tour, where they'll play with the likes of Wet Hair, Little Claw, Lightning Bolt, Eat Skull, and Yellow Fever, before heading home to Brooklyn to open for Sonic Youth. Oh and they have this here record too.

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