Deb Talan and Steve Tannen write songs that feel like overheard conversations.
For a good sense of their sound, try 'Can't go back now' or 'How Do You Get High?', they're typical of that quiet, conversational quality.
Their music has a way of settling in without demanding attention, built around intertwined vocals and acoustic arrangements. Songs like 'Gotta Have You' and 'Be My Thrill' carry the emotional weight of everyday relationships with a gentle, melodic directness. It's folk-pop that feels more private than performative.
They met at a songwriting workshop in 2001 and started recording together, releasing albums like Happiness in 2006 and Say I Am You in 2008. Later work, including Sirens in 2015, continued in the same vein of understated, lyrically straightforward songs.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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