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After The Floodby Talk Talk
After The Flood
Talk Talk
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- Oct 4, 2024
14:14 PMReleased in 1991, Talk Talk's 'Laughing Stock' was the fifth and final album by this British art rock band. - Jan 4, 2024
7:45 AMHappy birthday to Mark Hollis, co-founder and song writer for the Talk Talk. This track comes form the final record of the band and is formational release within the post-rock genre. - Nov 12, 2023
12:05 PMReleased in 1991, Talk Talk's 'Laughing Stock' was the fifth and final album by this British art rock band. - Jun 8, 2022
6:49 AMReleased in 1991, Talk Talk's 'Laughing Stock' was the fifth and final album by this British art rock band. - Nov 28, 2019
6:02 AMEngineer Phil Brown declared 'After The Flood' to be "probably the best engineering for me in the past forty years. Drums were miked far from the kit, sounds were allowed to echo through the studio space, mistakes were an integral part of the performance, and the album's dynamics are entirely genuine, the live feel of a jazz record." - Feb 26, 2019
6:03 AMWe're paying tribute this morning to Mark Hollis, frontman of the band Talk Talk, following his death at the age of 64. Talk Talk’s bassist Paul Webb, aka Rustin Man, paid tribute to Hollis on Instagram. “I am very shocked and saddened to hear the news of the passing of Mark Hollis,” he wrote. “Musically he was a genius and it was a honour and a privilege to have been in a band with him. 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.” www.kexp.org - Feb 18, 2019
21:34 PMMark Hollis, Lee Harris, and Paul Webb started with synth pop before eventually pioneering post rock. - Sep 12, 2017
6:08 AMEngineer Phil Brown declared 'After The Flood' to be "probably the best engineering for me in the past forty years. Drums were miked far from the kit, sounds were allowed to echo through the studio space, mistakes were an integral part of the performance, and the album's dynamics are entirely genuine, the live feel of a jazz record." - Sep 16, 2016
6:02 AMGood morning and happy Friday. Today marks the 25th anniversary of Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock," the fifth and final album by this British art rock band: www.allmusic.com - Jun 26, 2013
6:01 AMLaughing Stock is Talk Talk's final album in which the band took on an almost free-form aesthetic. - Oct 1, 2012
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