Talk Talk’s singer was a master of melancholy and reinvention whose touchingly tender voice allowed us to vanish into ourselves
Talk Talk’s fourth and fifth albums, 1988’s Spirit of Eden and 1991’s Laughing Stock, took this vanishing act further, throwing away any memory of their arrival in pop in 1982 with the synth-pop clamour of Today. Songs such as Desire, Taphead and After the Flood were impossibly beautiful and sublimely bleak – not like songs at all, in many senses.
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