Orlando-based duo SALES (vocalist/guitarist Lauren Morgan and producer Jordan Shih) reassume their position as guitar-based indie pop poets of everyday realities with their new single “Talk a Lot”. The hypnotic track is their latest output since releasing their self-titled debut LP in April last year, and their first track to be accompanied by an official (disjointed and evocative) music video.
‘Your friends they seem to talk a lot/ You know I’m not that type/ Just pull-up in your shopping cart--/ Just throw it all in there, it’s fine’: Morgan imbues the objects and rituals of everyday life with the palpable urgencies of intimate emotional entanglements once again, with her delicately layered and melismatic vocals. The duo are certainly familiar with states of unfulfilled yearning, but there is a newfound revelation of angst and agency here (‘You're making it look easy/ Just shake off that, easy/ I'm feelin' so breezy’), nestled within the ambivalence, driving a momentum with surprising vigor.
Shih charts the valleys and contours of Morgan’s shifts between directness and equivocation, allowing the track to move seamlessly from sparser, quieter moments to angular guitar-driven intensities that strain past the traditional boundaries of the lo-fi aesthetic. The melody is, as always, exquisite - as is the final, self-reflexive conclusion that Morgan eventually arrives at when it is time to check out:
'Throw it in a shopping cart-- Making your wish come true. Throw it in a shopping cart-- feeling like i’m closer to all the dreams of you. Throw it in a shopping cart. Walking through isles, and isles, and isles ,and isles, and miles, and miles, and miles, and miles, denial.'
Lyrics: Bandcamp
