Talk Talk began their successful half of their career in new-wave during the eighties. They achieved considerable international success in 1984 with the album It's My Life. In 1986, their minor classic The Colour of Spring was released abandoning the new wave style that had launched them.This became their biggest studio album success in the UK, making the top 10, in part due to the Top 20 single "Life's What You Make It".
Their first of two seminal post-rock albums was 1988's Spirit of Eden, which involved the band in a tenuous relationship with their label, citing ...read more
Talk Talk began their successful half of their career in new-wave during the eighties. They achieved considerable international success in 1984 with the album It's My Life. In 1986, their minor classic The Colour of Spring was released abandoning the new wave style that had launched them.This became their biggest studio album success in the UK, making the top 10, in part due to the Top 20 single "Life's What You Make It".
Their first of two seminal post-rock albums was 1988's Spirit of Eden, which involved the band in a tenuous relationship with their label, citing refusal for any promotion and unable to perform any of the material live. Later in 1991 their unheralded swan song Laughing Stock was released on jazz label Verve. Comprised mainly of session musicians, it further reflected a path into jazz tinged reflection pieces. Ignored upon its released, it has since set the tone for most of the post-rock that followed in the 90s. « hide
