Talk From Home
Recorded over a few weeks in a small Los Angeles studio on vintage synths, catalog MAT3.
Suzanne Kraft, 2015
Herrera recorded it around December 2014 into January 2015 at Cafe Ale, a small studio run by dublab founder Alejandro Cohen, who was away for a month; he said he was basically alone for all of December into January. He looped a part, layered another and treated the synths and melodic parts as his band members, with five or six vintage synths, and told In Sheep's Clothing in 2025 that it is a lot less polished than he remembered. The "Renee Sleeping" demo was first played to Jonny Nash on a trip to Los Angeles. Alchemy Mastering cut the lacquer and Optimal Media pressed it. Release is dated July 13, 2015 on Bandcamp and June 13, 2015 on MusicBrainz.
Phil Cho of In Sheep's Clothing called it an essential ambient pop album, its songs simple in structure and developing slowly from an initial melodic idea, and it reached Resident Advisor's top 20 albums of 2015. The 10 Year Anniversary Edition (Bandcamp, September 26, 2025) adds five tracks: a live "Renee Sleeping" from FFKT in Japan in 2023, "Rulers", "Casarena", "Temporary" and "Male Intuition (Discarded Melody)".
Track listing
- Two Chord Wake4:58
- Never Heated5:50
- Flatiron7:00
- Renee Sleeping4:09
- Talk From Home3:58
- Male Intuition3:50
- The Result7:35
More from Suzanne Kraft
Missum (2010), What You Get For Being Young (2016), About You (2021)
Sources
- Talk From Home, In Sheep's Clothing
- Talk From Home, Suzanne Kraft
- In conversation: 10 years of Talk From Home, In Sheep's Clothing (2025)