He is given to speaking like a Buddhist in a cockney accent, sentences that seem born of some kind of guru algorithm (“I’ve always been of the belief that to play one note well is better than to play two notes badly.”) At once truculent and soft-spoken, Hollis once got into a fight with the guy from Spandau Ballet because Hollis referred to everyone in the room, including himself, as scum.It was the grueling world tour behind Colour that sealed it for Hollis.

What if the massive EMI corporation had known that when Talk Talk delivered the masters to Spirit of Eden in the spring of 1988, the record would be a once and future marvel of pop music, the nexus into which jazz and minimalism poured and out of which a new post-rock flowed. Rare is rock music this simple made with such toil and unbearable emotion that there’s no better way to classify Spirit of Eden than by the elemental virtue of its sound, the very first thing of all music.If only ’s record label felt the same way. It is a deep blue book of sound, humid with melancholy. One moment (a muted trumpet, for instance) is always placed exactly where it should be alongside another (feedback from a blues harmonica), thousands of hours of tape painstakingly laced together as part of the vision and spiritual largesse of its composers, singer-songwriter Mark Hollis and co-writer/producer Tim Friese-Greene. (Except for 'OK Computer.' During the first listen, I didn't have it 'all figured out,' but I knew I was listening to something rare and wonderful.Then it just glows.Never once do these six songs reveal the thought or labor that went into them, never once is there too much or too little. History suggests that the really good stuff takes many listens. After one listen, I wondered what the fuss was all about, but I'll give it a few more spins. I picked this up after reading some raves about it. Please, please seek it out and have a listen.

This is one of those records that changes your life. I don't particularly like that article (bit po-faced), but a lot of people have said they love it. It has approximately bugger-all in common with 80s synthpop and a great deal in common with Miles Davis, Can, Eno, Robert Johnson, and many, many other wonderful things.Īnd it sounds absolutely extraordinary on headphones. A seamless, flowing, jazz/blues/psychedelia/rock/avant-garde religious trip into the deep, dark soul of a tortured man. It's the greatest album ever made, possibly. I've mentioned this album before here, but I don't think people have really paid attention, so I'm starting a thread about it. Originally Posted by SickMouthy /img/forum/go_quote.gif

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