LAUGHING STOCK

Me listening to TALK TALK? You fool! ...and a number of good friends came away without listening to this miracle (miracles do happen, you know). The way Talk Talk adventure began (a sort of silly Durans, I'm afraid) didn't allow most people to see the incredible path Mark Hollis was able to follow. In a few days they adapted pop textures to minimal music, crystal silences, beautiful organ sounds, ever pulsing bass lines (not to mention that incredible voice) and produced a bunch of beautiful intimate albums without singles, with hypnotic and almost silent long songs, in which silences are equal to sounds. Fool of me? Wash your ears from prejudice, and listen!