Talking Is Hard is Walk The Moon's highly anticipated sophomore album. It features the single ‘Shut Up And Dance’ which is climbing up the Top 40 iTunes hits.
Review
The second major-label-issued full-length outing from the crafty
Cincinnati-based quartet, Talking Is Hard finds Walk the Moon doubling down on
their predilection for neon-streaked '80s dance music with a 12-track slab of
twisty, pulsating, yet always melodious Phoenix-, Jukebox the Ghost-,
Bleachers-, and Foster the People-inspired indie pop that's as clever as it is
tooth-decay inducing. Produced by Tim Pagnotta (Neon Trees, Matthew Koma) and
mixed by Neal Avron (Weezer, New Found Glory), Talking Is Hard is a fevered road
trip-ready mixtape in search of the perfect summer party house, albeit a
domicile filled to the rafters with pretty, feathery-haired youths who have been
poured into Calvin Kleins and are smoking Capris and knocking back vodka-spiked
juice boxes instead of craft beer. Nowhere is that flair for John Hughes
ephemera more apparent than the album's first single, “Shut Up and Dance,”
a pulsing, closing credits-ready anthem that oozes upbeat millennial enthusiasm,
yet contains just enough angst to evoke a Breakfast Club post-lunch therapy
session. Opening cut “Different Colors” also does a nice job of balancing
the two persuasions, offering up a nice mix of Bastille-influenced, swirly
electro-pop atmosphere and dense, heavily arpeggiated retro-fitted indie rock.
In fact, that pretty much sums up the bulk of the album, with exceptions
arriving via the slick, R&B-infused “We Are the Kids” and “Aquaman,”
the latter of which may have actually been recorded in 1984, but Walk the Moon
are good enough at what they do and deliver their product with such confidence
and verve that it's easy to forgive them their trespasses. James
Christopher Monger – Allmusic.com