As one half of influential noise-rock duo Talk Normal, Andrya Ambro graced the cover of The Deli Magazine’s Best of NYC 2010 Issue. Since 2014 Andrya has been active in her own band Gold Dime, who are releasing their debut album ‘Nerves’ on Fire Talk Records. The band is sharing “All We Have To Be Thankful For” (streaming below) which is an expanded re-adaptation of British spoken-word artist Anne Clark’s 1982 original. Amid percussive bursts of cymbals and jingly metallic strikes, forceful guitar chords establish a slow building progression. Ambro recites the original spoken word lyrics describing frustration with simply trying to “not to make a mess of it all.” Melodic bass lines emerge within a shifting landscape of background voices and sparse instrumentation. Additional lyrics (not in the original) are presented before a wave of pure industrial noise which ultimately leads back to the original progression. Nerves is out on 6/3 with the band playing their release show on 6/3 at Alphaville. – Dave Cromwell
