Genre: UK pop/rock
Places I remember: MNAC selection from Tom Kirkham (yes: THAT Tom Kirkham)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: The Colour Of Spring (love how it emerges out of silence)
Gear costume: Inside Looking Out, Watershed
Active compensatory factors: An extraordinary album! I like Talk Talk (Mark Hollis was the front man (played guitar, piano and sang), but this isn't much like Talk Talk - great in a different way: full of delicate sound patterns, minimalist at times, discordant in patches (but that resolves into interesting textures), beautiful piano driven songs that sound like glimpses of other things (David Crosby, Keith Jarrett, Blue Nile) but end up being uniquely Mark Hollis.
Where do they all belong? He was a complicated character by all accounts but he left us with this - a perfect final word, delivered some 20 years before his death this year. That sounds weird right? And so it is. he basically retired from music (but not life) after this one and only solo album!
No comments:
Post a Comment