#20
Artist: Talk Talk
Album: Laughing Stock
Year of Release: 1991
Label: Polydor
Roughly a quarter of this list falls under the banner of post-rock, but every time I listen to Talk Talk's last two records I grow to feel that moniker should be reserved exclusively for them. The ingredients of rock are all there but arranged in a manner so peculiar that you never know what to expect next. The breakdown on "Ascension Day" just keeps building, the bridge on "After the Flood" gets fuzzier and fuzzier, the melody on "New Grass" never quite resolves itself - all this and more speaks to something fundamentally primal about Talk Talk's later work that no one has quite matched ever since. A truly singular work.
I strongly considered including Mark Hollis' solo record in this list, but then figured that violated the one album per artist restrictions, but then I thought it's so different from even this that it should count, but then it's the same number of years away from this (7) as "It's My Life" is on the earlier side so maybe constant evolution was just Mark Hollis' thing. RIP.
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