Album Review: Tallies Self-Tilted Debut Socializes Love

Listening to Tallies’ self-titled debut was like listening to The Smiths do a shoegaze pop-rock record. Citing them, Aztec Camera, and The Sundays as influences, their guitar melodies feel twinkled with a hazed nostalgia that makes you feel like you could look back on the most wonderful days of your life through a kaleidoscope. If youthfulness truly is an energy based in wonder then Tallies are serving it. 

“Have You,” “Beat The Heart,” and “Easy Enough” feel like a tour through the hallways of everyone’s inner highschool. I swear that even after we enter the “workforce” or put our “adulting” pants on to take on serious relationships, somehow, life still feels like it work on a high-school grid: giving you deadlines, routines, and clashing cliques. Still, this is a good image to have when analyzing the social maneuvers of a human being, which Tallies do in tracks like, ‘Mother” and “Giving Up.” From friendships to romance or self-love, to Tallies, everything can be simmered into a social behavior. How Freudian of them! Yet, all jokes aside, if love is a matter of social interactions, Tallies are shimmering their hooks and choruses with its nuances. 

Music is not only about how it makes you move, but what it makes you imagine. Tallies’ lead songstress Cogan has a voice that feels yarned in yearning. It as if her vocal chords are actually hands reaching out for “something.” No matter how much the keys and drums of her backdrop splash like barrels of colorful paints hitting your mind’s walls, her voice is steady and, in turn, stabilizing. She feels unmovable through tracks like, a still beam mentally wondering what its like to feel like you can move from your place without tearing down your surrounding foundation. 

Tallies’ debut is a perfect intro for a band that will rise to capture emotional intrigues and jangle-rock sensibilities. Moreover, this solid record provides listeners with visions of this band’s sonic potentials, which a debut should do. People want to listen to you again if they feel you will give them more of your style and their fascination, of which Tallies’ self-titled debut achieves. For More Information On Tallies Click Here.