Talk To Her – Love Will Come Again (Album – Shyrec / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop-rock.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Italian formation Talk To Her saw the light of day in 2015. The band seems to have gained some recognition in its homeland while the debut EP “Home” (2018) was a successful work. “Love Will Come Again” is the band’s debut full length released again on Shyrec, but now also available on Icy Cold Records.
Content: The album sounds like the continuation to “Home”. Even if the band’s claims to be inspired by post-punk, the main influences emerging at the surface are clearly indie-like. The songs reveal a perfect twist between pop and rock music. The guitar has for sure a 80s touch on top, but mainly creates the rock side of the work while the melodic element the songs have been achieved with has something more pop driven. I can’t really compare Talk To Her with another formation, but they somewhere make me think to Editors.
+ + + : Talk To her confirms the strong potential revealed at “Home”. I like the fact this album contains only new songs, which makes the “Home”-EP a bit more special. The songs are once again carried by impressive guitar playing, which literally makes the spirit of this band. Call it post-punk or indie-pop, it doesn’t’ really care! “Love Will Come Again” has something authentic; the songs are mixing retro elements with something more personal resulting in multiple great songs. “Away/Afraid” however is the masterpiece of the album. This song has something more 80s like, but still maintains the indie touch of this band. Other attention grabbers are “Ibisco” and “Hollow”.
– – – : I don’t have major minus points about this album, but I get the feeling this band is even able to do better.
Conclusion: Talk To Her has the potential to become something ‘big’. This debut full length is more than a successful and accomplished beginning!
Best songs: “Away/Afraid”, “Ibisco”, “Truth”, “Hollow”.
Rate: (8).
Artist: www.talktoherband.com / www.facebook.com/talktoherband
Labels: www.shyrec.it / www.facebook.com/Shyrec Read the news on ‘Love Will Come Again’.
About Talk To Her
Talk To Her is an Italian formation set up in 2015. The band released the debut EP “Home” in 2018 before moving on to “Love Will Come Again”, produced with Matteo Scarpa (Kill Your Boyfriend) and released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Discussing the album in a Side-Line Click Interview, the band described it as “not a message of hope, but of ineluctability, for better or for worse”.
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