Talk In Tongues
Los Angeles
Indie Rock
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About the Artist
Los Angeles foursome Talk In Tongues didn't come out of nowhere, although it sounded that way when their debut single “Still Don't Seem To Care" suddenly appeared online. And it felt that way for them at the beginning, too, when each member was a refugee from another band that just wasn't working right. Back then, they were barely acquaintances-guitarist and singer McCoy Kirgo remembers seeing his future bandmates at shows in their other bands, and then at parties after the shows. And if you looked into the music they'd already made, it didn't quite make sense for them to put a band together. (Future bassist Waylon Rector wrote constantly, but all his songs were laptop-made synth-pop.)But they almost immediately found that they all shared limitless drive and direction and an unexpected common ground in several generations of psychedelic music, from the 60s Pink Floyd and 13th Floor Elevators through the unstoppable Creation Records roster in the 90s. Then things happened fast. By the end of their first practice together, they'd already discovered what they wanted to sound like. Says guitarist and singer Garrett Zeile: “I had songs I'd compiled over the last year, and they fit the direction we wanted-they were the building blocks. Then we all started contributing."They booked a show weeks after their first practice together in early 2014, mostly just to prove to the world that they really existed. (If you were there, you're part of a very lucky and exclusive group!) The very next day, they went into their home studio and recorded their first single “Still Don't Seem To Care," a dreamy, ethereal neo-psychedelic song mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Arctic Monkeys, Interpol). It was just the kind of sound he'd been looking for, says Kirgo: “I wanted to play big music, like something you'd hear...