Blog: i'm waking up to...

I gotta plead complete amnesia about the first time I encountered the music of Talk Talk , specifically their atmospheric pop masterpiece Laughing Stock (1991). Now and then, one of the album's six songs of aching end-times poignancy would resurface inside my head, ruffling through looted memories and then retreating back into the darkest places. The estranged beauty and pearly-gate melancholy rooted in Mark Hollis' songwriting and singing on Laughing Stock have few parallels (at least in my own record collection) though this haunted music can certainly make for uneasy listening. I was [...]

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