Cousin-in-law. Gary and Lynn Clements, Ed Crenshaw, Mark Hollis - Barney Barnett School of Business & Free Enterprise Awards Ceremony; Lone Palm Golf Club; Lakeland, FL (March 29, 2012), Life's what you make it (r.i.p Mark Hollis), by Michigan State University Advancement Events, by Tuggeranong Valley Australian Football Club, Hear it in my spirit I've seen heroin for myself On the street so young, laying wasted Enough, ain't it enough, crippled world I just can't bring myself to see it starting'. He played piano and co-wrote a track on Unkles Psyence Fiction album, and produced, arranged and played on two tracks on Anja Garbareks Smiling and Waving record. And then the first muted trumpet note and violin swell of The Rainbow. I opened my eyes, squinting in the light, and had just begun to remember where I was when a lovely, crystalline guitar figure was shattered by a blazing harmonica. In the early 80s, this British group started out seemingly in the same league as New Wave synth bands like Spandau Ballet and Flock of Seagulls. I will go over the points that make it. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. ), a blues harp covers it all and, after a woozy heart beat drum, the song finally recedes and mutates into Eden with Velvet-esque guitar rhythm and piano then an exploding set of guitar chords before drifting away and ebbing back again. Two years before he died from cancer, at the age of 64 in February 2019, Mark Hollis and his wife moved from west London to the East Sussex market town of Heathfield, where they bought a house at the end of a secluded track. Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden, 1988. That year he came close to describing his ethos: Before you play two notes, learn how to play one. Sign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! With producer Tim Friese-Green stepping in for the now departed Brenner, Hollis and Talk Talk moved into more organic waters with The Colour of Spring (1986). You have to give it all your attention. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Covid origin likely China lab incident - FBI chief, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip, Ukraine war casts shadow over India's G20 ambitions, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Colour of Spring was great, but Laughing Stock, my god, that was so good., Reflecting on Hollis prolonged quiet, Elbows Guy Garvey told me: I have a few good friends who have dropped out of music and its not always because they have problems or because theyre tortured. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Mark Hollis Apart from that theyre really horrible. A recent eulogy from Roland Orzabal of loosely comparable generational peers Tears For Fears did not dispute Marks incongruity. It was called ambient jazz-rock, elusive and uncommonly beautiful. It was Ed too who introduced Hollis to his future bandmates in Talk Talk, who formed in 1981. (Pleasingly, the cover artwork of exotic birds nesting in a tree was a continuation of Talk Talks collaboration with surrealist designer James Marsh.) Band members Paul Webb and Lee Harris as well as. Hollis vocals on Spirit of Eden are laced with a confessional vulnerability, which, while at times barely a whisper or a mumble, becomes something indelibly transcendent. As it is, Hollis withdrawal from music has left behind a vital body of work that must now be regarded as complete, and which continues to take its listeners to the higher place its creator strived so hard to reach. A Gannett Company. He said, I cant do this anymore. And yet what he was doing was spectacular. The first gold of a daffodil; the fresh surprise of warmth on the neck; a bluer sky. In a 2018 interview for Mojo magazines Last Night a Record Changed My Life, musician Steven Wilson observed, I think the first time I connected with the Colour of Spring was the video for Lifes What You Make It on a Saturday morning kids show. A hint of this could be found in April 5th, a track on The Colour of Spring that marked the birthdate of his wife, Felicity. Issue #70 - My Favorite Movie (Sharon Van Etten and Ezra Furman), Issue #70 - My Favorite Movie (Sharon Van Etten and Ezra Furman). The success of The Colour of Spring meant that Talk Talk had a bigger budget to play with on the follow-up, Spirit of Eden (1988), but Holliss musical thinking was now geared towards Debussy, Erik Satie and Ornette Coleman rather than other pop or rock acts. At times, the voice is little more than a thin parting of the air. But Hollis is also a voice strangely blessed of its own quiet confidence. The vocals almost slurred, buried. The world has lost another music icon. In reality this was never likely to happen. with Hollis claiming that he wanted to focus on family life with his wife Flick, a teacher, and their two sons . --- Image by Fabio Nosotti/CORBIS. Its oblique chords and acoustic treatments support a voice that seems to shift delicately on the air, and it begins with a song called The Colour of Spring, a brief hint to his past, which has always moved me. Anthony Costello his cousin-in-law tweeted on Monday 25 February 2019:"RIP Mark Hollis. The various light and shade musical textures that saw the record move between meditative hush and fleeting cacophonies gave Hollis songs an emotional ballast that grounded them, even as they seemed to push towards something celestial and terminally out of reach. Talk Talk perform It's My Life in Rotterdam in 1984. That music, stroking and scratching the sublime, is deathless. Talk Talk, group shot, backstage on 'Countdown' TV show, Bussum, Netherlands, 25th February 1986. Henceforth Hollis would take the group (comprising its original drummer Lee Harris and bass player Paul Webb, and with Friese-Greene as a regular contributor) into boldly experimental territory, creating music that would prove influential on many other artists, but was anathema to record companies looking for hit singles and platinum discs. As his final substantial musical gift to the world, Hollis was saying the quietest of goodbyes. Read about our approach to external linking. He took his own advice, embracing silence. He is the co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter of the band "Talk Talk". My FLICKR account might not suggest it, but actually I prefer to make portraits. Hollis promoted the album with radio and print interviews, but it was yet another commercial failure. Apparently, Lee Harris in a statement via Facebook confirmed he was in touch with Mark regularly, right up to the day before he died. I have not seen Mark for many years, but like many musicians of our generation I have been profoundly influenced by his trailblazing musical ideas. Notify me of follow-up comments? We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories. Here she comes, it begins. The 2004 Bark Psychosis album, ///Codename: Dustsucker, features extensive input from Talk Talk drummer Lee Harris, who also played on Webbs collaboration as Rustin Man with Portishead vocalist Beth Gibbons, Out of Season. Even his former bandmates lost touch with him. [His voice is] all whisper and no scream, Young writes beautifully in that interview. The album was a hit internationally. Drummer Lee Harris and bassist Paul Webb had gone on to form the band .O.rang. Its too easy to label a musician a Syd Barrett-style recluse just because they havent been releasing albums and doing interviews: he was, for example, a keen and not antisocial motorcycle enthusiast. Hollis was born in Tottenham, north London, and attended Tollington grammar school in Muswell Hill (now Fortismere school). Alongside Talk Talks core, Spirit of Eden featured a large ensemble of players, including iconic double bass player Danny Thompson and veteran jazz trumpeter Henry Lowther, with violinist Nigel Kennedy also making an appearance. Yet its hard now to think of music that sounds less typically 80s than theirs. - via www.twitxr.com/drumdog00/updates/34449 - Location: Ankeny, IA. After releasing a solo album in 1998, Hollis left music behind and removed himself from public view. He had two children. Mark Hollis was born on January 4, 1955 (age 64) in England He is a celebrity rock singer His genres are New wave,synthpop,art rock,post-rock,progressive rock,folk,jazz,ambient But then as February to March came again, the days starting to lengthen and warm, I realised it didnt really matter where Mark Hollis was, or who he was any more. Can I go home now? For the last 21 years, he went home, his masterpieces done. he said. And so, as the year keeps on brightening, Ill try to remember the music still continuing, still breathing, after all else has gone. Talk Talk achieved mainstream success with such hits as It's My Life and Such a Shame, but became increasingly insular and experimental over time. I cant add anything. Hollis laughed, benignly. The record company didnt understand the recordthey didnt hear a hit singleand Hollis and co. had a messy divorce from EMI amid several lawsuits. The recording sessions, engineered by Phill Brown (brother of Rush producer Terry) ate up gobs of money in studio time. And dont play one unless youve got a reason to play it.. 211 talking about this. It invites you embrace his inner silence, as well as our own. The Rainbow starts with muted horn and strange sounds before a guitar is struck and after what sounds like rain (? Was riding with him and a bunch of others only last Marchseemed fit well and was delighted with his recent house move. Tommy Lasorda, the iconic former pitcher and manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, died on Jan. 7, 2021, at age 93 from cardiac arrest. Tue 26th Feb 2019 12.24 GMT. All the synths had been replaced by instruments such as guitar, piano, drums, clarinets, harmonium, bassoon, oboe, trumpet, and violins. Hollis was briefly given his own Speedball imprint by Island, though nothing came of it. When the mood is right, this album will deliver. Hollis stubborn unwillingness to compromise his vision to an industry only interested in shifting units saw him eventually retreat into a private silence where only his family mattered. It was very much an experimental creation in which each musician entered the darkened studio, sometimes lit by strobe lights, and improvised upon a theme. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. Ever., As Alan McGee (who signed Oasis and Primal Scream to his Creation Records) put it this way in The Guardian: Spirit of Eden has not dated; its remarkable how contemporary it sounds, anticipating post-rock, The Verve and Radiohead. A look at the career of the late Talk Talk frontman who died in 2019 Few heard it coming in the early music of Talk Talk, whose 1982 debut album The Partys Over, a slice of now-dated synth-pop sheen that wanted to be Roxy Musics Avalon but landed on Midge Ures Ultravox, was described by critics as a mess, airless and a laughable pomposity. 2023 BBC. Moderate commercial success came with the bands first two albums, The Partys Over (1982) and Its My Life (1984). Human error to blame for deadly train crash, says Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Ed also influenced the line-up of the fledgling Talk Talk, helping Mark and the keyboard player Simon Brenner to find Webb and Harris, who hailed from the Southend-on-Sea area. The latter recommended to Aspden that Hollis try collaborating with Kate Bush. Choosing favourite records for brightly lit pop mags, hed opt for Shostakovich, Faure, Walter Carlos, Augustus Pablo, Keith Jarrett. And then, suddenly, to break from it to make a completely organic and make such a beautiful record in Spirit of Eden. 1 Reply Log in to reply +2. Mark Hollis, lead singer of 1980s band Talk Talk, has died at the age of 64, his former manager has confirmed. But, alas, Spirit of Eden was ahead of its time. Finally the choir fades and after another lengthy pause a whispered solo voice breaks through with bass and organ for Wealth. In 2012 he composed a piece of music for Kelsey Grammers TV drama Boss. The turning point was 1986s artistic and commercial breakthrough, Colour of Spring. var addthis_pub="4a0dbe61011c49a9"; Mark Hollis death was very much like the latter part of his life-shrouded in mystery. He has also published books on Lou Reed, Elton John, the Gothic arts, Talk Talk, Kate Moss, Scarlett Johansson, Abba, Tom Jones and others. Okay, not quite. There is laughter in her kiss. Mark Hollis, who has died aged 64 following a short illness, was one of the most wilfully singular musical artists of the late twentieth century. If Spirit Of Eden created post-rock, this created post-post-rock. Todays news of Holliss death at age 64 came not in the form of an official announcement, but via a tweet from his cousin-in-law. Lifes What You Make It and Living In Another World pulled off marriages of euphoric big beat and eccentric, left-handed shifts. Why did Mark Hollis retire? But I don't usually upload them. Tasked with soundtracking the Kelsey Grammar TV series Boss, composer Brian Reitzell marshaled an all-star crew of collaborators including Shearwaters Meiburg, My Morning Jackets Jim James, the duo Air, and Oneohtrix Point Never. It will be published by Rocket 88 books, the . Its so timeless that you wouldnt know it wasnt recorded yesterday. Mein FLICKR Account lsst es zwar nicht vermuten, aber tatschlich mache ich am liebsten Portrts. "It made for a tremendous and very entertaining bill. Mark Hollis, second from left, with, from left, the keyboard player Simon Brenner, drummer Lee Harris and bassist Paul Webb, in a 1982 publicity shot for Talk Talk - Hollis was said to hate the way EMI packaged the band in white suits and black ties. Though many critics hailed it as a masterpiece and it reached the UK Top 20, EMI were frustrated at its lack of commercial selling points. Musicians were first bewildered, then awed as the sounds found the sweet spot in your soul, as the jigsaw started to fit. Then there was the bizarre and responsible use of synthesizers in Colour of Spring. Its quite often the mistakes that are the best things, and thats why so much of the LP would be so hard to recreate, Hollis mused in another interview at the time with Record Mirror. Among his interviewees over the years have been David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Bryan Ferry, Al Green, Tom Waits & Lou Reed. Or so I thought until one night I helped a friend decorate Anita Roddicks kitchen in London, all night (true story). After initial chart action, the bands record label, EMI, found Hollis latter tendencies difficult to slot into a marketplace overloaded with saccharine gloss. (A live album, London 1986 was belatedly released in 1998.) He lived nearby and had chosen the pub. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. Talk Talks early records are fairly disposable but yielded hits such as Such a Shame, Dum Dum Girl, Today, and, best of all, Its My Life. That song wasnt quite a hit upon release in 1984. Between these bold lines, flickers of their musics future murmured through on fragile, floating elegies like Chameleon Day. Called ARB Section 1, its keening clarinet and discordant synthesised voices suggest a recognisable soul musically approaching new avenues. Bands dont split up publicly most of the time. By now Hollis was writing all the material with Tim Friese-Greene, who had been brought aboard for the Its My Life album as producer and keyboard player. That early show with Genesis may have been something of a nightmare on the day, the atrocious weather fuelling the disgruntlement of an audience who took it out on the support act, but theres a discernible bittersweet, happy-sad element shared by Gabriels more subtle slow numbers, Genesis melancholy moments like Entangled, and the emotion Hollis would display on something like April 5th, the song named after his wifes birthday on The Colour Of Spring. Let me breathe, Hollis sings, as we hear a new band being born. Having been silent for 20 years, Mark Hollis died in 2019. Most photos are of Mei, my wife and muse. He described Spirit of Eden as best experienced in a calm mood, with no distractions. . degree7on January 11, 2010 Link. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. At the time, Hollis shared the same manager, Keith Aspden, as the band No-Man, a duo consisting of Steven Wilson and singer-songwriter Tim Bowness. Copyright 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees, Alumni Association, Harley J Seeley Photography, Inc. Green and White Lunch at Kellogg Center. His birth sign is Capricorn. Hollis died at the age of 64. It created the perfect atmospheric spaces for the 90s foundations of post-rock and trip-hop. This is the darker side of my best friend. What is on . Hollis' desire to spend more time with his family was a major reason that Talk Talk stopped touring after 1986, and his reason for retiring from the music industry in 1998. Reviews ranged madly, nobody quite sure what the correct response was. a number 10 on the la femme scale. In 1990 it was reissued as a single from Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk. use without permission is illegal. As of 1998, Hollis lived in Wimbledon, London with his wife Flick (a teacher) and their two sons. "Talk Talk, which he co-founded and fronted, were on tour with us in 1982," he wrote on Twitter. My wife gave me express permission to do this. He sold me a pirated DVD for $5.- and the disc was empty. This was music that kept disappearing into the fog. Mark David Hollis was an English musician and singer-songwriter. 10 free downloads. As well as making guest appearances on Unkles album Psyence Fiction and Phill Brown and Dave Allinsons AV1 (both 1998), he popped up on Anja Garbareks album Smiling & Waving (2001) to play bass guitar and melodica, and in 2004 collected a BMI award as writer of Its My Life. Any monthly plan. Tim Bowness told this writer, Each successive statement sounded purer and more focused than the previous one. Great piece, thanks for writing it. Goodbye Mark Hollis,We owe you so much ,I cant overstate the influence on us three as musicians and us as a band.#markhollis #talktalk, Very sorry to hear the news that #MarkHollis of #TalkTalk has died. Ive really leaned on those records at different times. The group now disbanded, with Hollis claiming that he wanted to focus on family life with his wife Flick, a teacher, and their two sons. We ordered a couple of pints and sat together at a small table. His is one of the great un-rock voices, said Rob Young of Wire magazine in 1998, conducting Hollis last UK interview, to accompany his only solo, stunning eponymous album. Musicians including Tears for Fears, Radiohead, Elbows Guy Garvey and Steve Wilson of Porcupine Tree have acknowledged Talk Talks influence, while No Doubts 2003 version of Its My Life was a hit in the US and Britain. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. I drafted an idea for a documentary, to prompt him from his hiding place and somehow make him appear again. Died February 25th 2019. Stunning lyrics from the late great Mark Hollis of Talk Talk, who wrote this song in memory of his brother who succumb to heroin. Feb 25, 2019 Nowhere is this more evident than on I Believe in You, a six-minute paean to Ed, who by the time it was released had fallen prey to the fatal effects of long-term heroin addiction. Hollis, however, stayed determinedly out of view. By Jason Cowley. Please listen to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_c7hflLhY. When asked about the decision, he said: "I choose for my family. Never good at the promo game in an era when it was vital, he told one interviewer, If you understand it, you do. Few bands have had the curious artistic trajectory of Talk Talk. Producer Tim Friese-Green was as key to Talk Talk as George Martin was to The Beatles. This was a musician who didnt want us to think about him. In 1982, when his synth-pop band Talk Talk were making a mark on the charts with the singles Talk Talk and Today, Mark Hollis said: I want to write stuff that youll still be able to listen to in 10 years time. Nearly 40 years later, Hollis, who has died aged 64, has left a musical legacy that seems set to last indefinitely. all rights reserved. Copper Cable Tester. Hollis co-founded the band Talk Talk, in which . Remember my personal information You may want to read Metas Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. They typified the albums mix of powerful, spacious rhythms with carefully wrought instrumental colours, topped by Holliss pained and yearning vocals. His birth sign is Capricorn. He holds English nationality. Use code: FLICKR10. The Colour Of Spring is meticulously produced but with an enigmatic, intense spirituality. Keith Aspden told the BBC he was "still trying to accept" that his former colleague had died. The manager revealed that the Hollis failed to recover from "a short illness". "I can't tell you how much Mark influenced and changed my perceptions on art and music." Later, I would also find out the story behind April 5th: it is a song about his wife, named after the date . His new book The Velvet Underground is out April 4. He was behind some of the finest albums of the 1980s / early 1990s. My wife finished up a treadmill run and wanted to do some shots of yoga poses. Following a 17 -ear hiatus of his own, Rustin Man followed it up with this years excellent Drift Code (which features Harris on drums and has distinct echoes of his former band). From wimoweh, wimoweh to Spirit Of Eden is a hell of a leap.) If anything even more sparse and haunted than what preceded it, it seemed a fitting coda to Holliss career, from which he had now apparently retired. The last piece of original music by Hollis to appear in public was a clip barely a minute long that appeared in 2012 as part of American TV drama, Boss, a vehicle for Kelsey Grammer. This week in 1986, Talk Talks The Colour of Spring entered the album charts at No 8, sitting between Jonathan Kings Entertainment USA and Go Wests Bangs and Crashes like a rare butterfly. Like other reclusive geniuses such as JD Salinger, Harper Lee, and Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, Hollis created profound work and then, at a relatively young age, completely . It was triggered with Yongnuo remote triggers. In 2012, it briefly seemed as if Hollis hadnt thought the better of retirement. It must have seemed to him like a memory from youth, living in another world. Reitzells coup was talking Hollis into contributing a short piece of instrumental classical music, ARB Section 1, to one of the episodes. Famously, Hollis and co-writer/producer Tim Friese-Greene were imposing evangelically bizarre studio routines (or anti-routines): there are tales of disorientating strobe lighting, of players being brought in and not hearing the track, being told to improvise over nothing. Crazy, Ghost, Evil, Halloween, Church, Mental, Asylum, Club, Witchcraft, Wicca, Graveyard, Photos, Sim, Dancing,Fish hunt, trailer park, Haunted, Hunted House, Shop, woodland, Fairground, Spooky, Dj, Music, Show, pose, Photo, pagan, coven. "Mark Hollis," she said. Over five Talk Talk albums and a final, self-titled solo set, Hollis helped redefine what was possible with pop. But what's Mark Hollis up to now???? Personal life. Talk Talk in 1982: (L-R) Paul Webb, Mark Hollis, Lee Harris, Simon Brenner, End of instagram post by rustinmanofficial. Fascinating and principled man. ca. Mark Hollis - A life in music. Wife Dancing March 2011. All about Talk Talk, solo and related projects [Talk Talk, The Reaction, .O.Rang,. And I loved Mark for it. Once again, the band had to sort through messy tangles of experimentation to find the album in the editing room. Comments have been closed on this article. He had this on a cassette, and we played it over and over as the light dimmed and we got tireder. A look at the career of the late Talk Talk frontman who died in 2019. Other prolific writers tried, but . To view this content choose accept and continue. Keith Aspden, the longterm manager of Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis, has confirmed the singer's death. Laughing Stock my god!, Steve Hogarth noted that Talk Talk ran the gamut from synth-pop to uncompromising art. Thanks for visiting! I miss you Mark Hollis and I was goddamn lucky to met you back in the heydays. He achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the 1980s and 1990s as the co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter of the band Talk Talk. God bless Mark Hollis for his work, wherever he may be. A few years ago, I attempted to find him. Spirit of Eden in particular became a huge influence on a new generation of auteurs, with the baton picked up by the likes of Bark Psychosis, Graham Suttons indie noise band turned solo exploration of similarly inclined sonic sculpture. No matter how many times I listen to these albums I find myself totally immersed and entranced. Even the late Rick Wright of Pink Floyd was on record as declaring his admiration. (Contrary to myth, it wasnt universally panned by critics. The organ humming while the drum keeps a metronome beat, big and splashy. In 1998, Hollis released an eponymous solo record on Polydor Records. A remixed and edited version of I Believe in You was released as a single, complete with a video featuring a largely static but uncomfortable looking Hollis. They were developed organically through extended studio improvisations and recorded in the dark with the band surrounded by candles and psychedelic oil lamps. * full ruffled skirt. Mark Hollis performing in 1985. Perhaps the new record company was hoping for a hit along the lines of the recently reissued Its My Life. But if anything Laughing Stock was even less commercial. Goodbye Mark Hollis,We owe you so much ,I cant overstate the influence on us three as musicians and us as a band.#markhollis #talktalk Doves (@dovesmusicblog) February 25, 2019. Hollis did break cover fleetingly. In some ways, this type of stuff is braver because theres nothing to hide behind. Whispered and wailed confessions, psalms and exhortations spring from their depths, with that voice more gospel than pop, the fragmented musical structures aware of the codes of jazz and progressive rock but emanating from what might be a blinding light in a subterranean cave. Seemingly random shapes coalesced into something quite magical. Jeff was too sick to come out today so i decided to take some pictures of my wife. linux mint you need to load the kernel first; das kleine wir material kindergarten; bofrost niederlassungen; radioeins konzerte 2022; etat bundesligavereine; tut karies entfernen weh gutefrage; mark hollis wife flick . Yet despite Reitzells wish that the new composition would herald a whole new album, Hollis retreated again. As the vocalist, writer and driving force behind the band Talk Talk, which he formed with drummer Lee Harris, bassist Paul Webb and keyboardist Simon Brenner, Hollis moved from euphoric 1980s synth-pop to a form of exquisitely nuanced and timeless sounding contemporary classicism. Yet by the time the bands career for want of a better word had ended 10 years later, they had transformed into something radically more exploratory and, to this day, quietly influential. On one level, in one dimension, Talk Talk were an 80s band, existing from 1981 to 1992. Like seemingly everything Talk Talk did, its brilliance wasnt fully appreciated until years later. Your songs still haunt me and haunt me for sure this end of 2019 lonely night. Hollis is hardly a household name. More mainstream success followed, though it was when Hollis began writing with Friese-Green that his musical voice became increasingly expansive. DeSantis won't say he's running. He became a father in 1986, and talked in his rare interviews about the importance of being a good parent. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. Musicians united in respect, emphasising the range of Talk Talks reach, from prog to pop to post-rock to all who seek to tweak the envelope. He kept such riches, fittingly, to himself. Two years later, Spirit of Eden completed the bands transformation. 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