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Laughing Stock by Talk Talk (CD, Nov-1991, Polydor USA) 
Laughing Stock by Talk Talk (CD, Nov-1991, Polydor USA)

 
Laughing Stock by Talk Talk (CD, Nov-1991, Polydor USA)

Artist: Talk Talk
Release Date: Nov 1991
Format: CD
Record Label: Polydor (USA)
Genre: New Romantic, Rock & Pop
UPC: 042284771726
Product ID: EPID3138897
Description: The fifth Talk Talk album, LAUGHING STOCK, was its first following the band's much publicized split with EMI Records (the album was issued by the jazz label Verve). Recorded with a huge complement of string instruments, LAUGHING STOCK is...
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Track Listing
1. Myrrhman
2. Ascension Day
3. After the Flood
4. Taphead
5. New Grass
6. Runeii

Details
Playing Time:43 min.
Distributor:Universal Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:AAD

Album Notes
The fifth Talk Talk album, LAUGHING STOCK, was its first following the band's much publicized split with EMI Records (the album was issued by the jazz label Verve). Recorded with a huge complement of string instruments, LAUGHING STOCK is a far cry from the pop music of the band's early days--indeed, there are very few records that sound like it at all.
Containing elements of rock, classical, jazz, and experimental music, it pays little or no attention to traditional musical structures, setting its sights instead on unexplored realms. On "After the Flood," a slithering bass line and low-key drum pattern are colored in with peals of shrieking guitar feedback, while the whole track is suffused with sampled rain effects. "Taphead" opens with an underplayed guitar line against Mark Hollis's hesitant vocals, before devolving into a piece that's part song and part sound sculpture, punctuated by strings and horns that suggest metal fatigue in a cavernous ship's hold. The ebb and flow of "New Grass" features instruments bubbling and echoing around Hollis's shimmering voice, set to a jazzy backbeat. This is one slowly enveloping record.

Editorial Reviews
4 Stars - Excellent - ...melancholy mood, a rare thoughtfulness and the sense of sharing something deeply personal... haunting, emotional..
Q (10/01/1991)

Ranked #12 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991 - ...a sound whose ambience is as natural as breathing...
Melody Maker (12/01/1991)

...as glorious a swan-song as ever was....web-delicate arrangements, perfectly-judged acoustics, a silk-fine weave of jazz, classical and gospel textures - and distills them to the purest essence....life-enriching music...
Mojo (03/01/2000)

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