LAUGHING STOCK

While waiting for the Spirit of Eden album to come back to the library , I rented this one and I can start to understand why this album has something linked to this site. I had the same reaction to The Church than this band saying at first that they did not belong here , but I went ahead and re-listened them ( As well as It Bites ). I was definitely not impressed by the Church ( and did not change my mind on It Bites ) and still think that they do not belong , but this album is somehow different . talk talk always made moody pop tunes with a certain "Joyfull Sadness" sound that only them could make and this album is no exception: unmistakably Talk Talk. But something changed here and the preceding one ( I am trusting my fellow reviewers here) and The music is much more acoustic than before , takes its time to develop and has a real athmosphere and might even have a concept behind it . I will re-listen again this week but the chance that this enters my top 500 is very thin , but it did break into my top 1000, although as Maani poited out in the forum , one should be very careful upon our feelings about an album just after its discovery - I think that a newly acquired album should never be rated higher than 4 stars and maybe moved up (or down ) after one year or so. hence this 3 star rating.