Touch (July Talk album)

Touch is the second full-length album by Canadian indie rock band July Talk, released September 9, 2016 on Sleepless Records.[1] The album won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2017.[2]

Touch
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2016
StudioJukasa Studios
Dreamhouse Studios
GenreIndie rock
Length36 min.
LabelSleepless Records
ProducerIan Davenport, Alexandre Bonenfant
July Talk chronology
July Talk
(2012)
Touch
(2016)
Pray for It
(2020)

Tanya Tagaq appears as a guest vocalist on the album, on the track "Beck + Call".

Critical reception

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Sandra Sperounes of the Edmonton Journal described the album as "a thrusting, sweaty, and intimate look at lust, loneliness, obsession, and privacy in a world dominated by cellphones, computers, and consumption."[3] Matt Williams commented in Now that "July Talk's sophomore record bristles with the electricity of connection - between singers Leah Fay and Peter Dreimanis and the characters inside the songs."[4]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Picturing Love"3:35
2."Beck + Call"3:06
3."Now I Know"3:48
4."Johnny + Mary"2:27
5."Strange Habit"4:34
6."Push + Pull"2:51
7."Lola + Joseph"3:34
8."So Sorry"3:06
9."Jesus Said So"4:23
10."Touch"5:14

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[5] Gold 40,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ "July Talk Detail Sophomore LP 'Touch'". Exclaim!, June 13, 2016.
  2. ^ "Leonard Cohen, Tragically Hip, Grimes, Kaytranada, July Talk, the Weeknd Among Early Juno Winners". Exclaim!, April 1, 2017.
  3. ^ "July Talk: Reach out and touch Fay — and Dreimanis". Edmonton Journal, August 31, 2016.
  4. ^ "July Talk's second record, Touch, is full of swaggering radio rock". Now, September 7, 2016.
  5. ^ "Canadian album certifications – July Talk – Touch". Music Canada. Retrieved March 6, 2021.