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Sales “Talk A Lot”

Sales’ earlier material reminded me a lot of both Beach House and Blonde Redhead, and though those apparent influences are still in their music, their new single “Talk A Lot” sounds like a band who’ve found their own lane. It’s mostly in the rhythm – the beats are crisp and snappy, and the guitar is strummed so those clean, bright chords seem to bounce off the groove. Lauren Morgan’s voice is well framed by this arrangement, and she comes off like a generally shy person tapping into a more assertive and confident part of their personality. The lyrics are fairly confrontational – “your friends they seem to talk a lot / you know I’m not that type” – but the song seems to be more about shrugging off some kind of drama rather than diving into it. The key line here: “Free me of that bullshit.”

Buy it from Bandcamp.