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Mark Hollis
Mark Hollis
(Polydor, 1998)
Ten years ago, the perfectionist Prospero Of Anguish threw his books into the sea.
Seven years after the commercial suicide note that was Talk Talk’s ravishing, elusive Laughing Stock album, the first Mark Hollis solo album emerged. In some ways you wondered why he’d bothered, so thoroughly does disgust and renunciation run through its every groove, the trademark Hollis sob more starkly lit than ever in the absence of Talk Talk’s notoriously budget-buggering instrumentation. “Dead to love”, inexplicably enraged by the press amid the lurching jazz shapes and Pogles’ woodwind of The Daily Planet, exquisitely bereft on the bosky Watershed (“for the good has bled to dust,” apparently), Hollis makes you fret, more than ever, how a man so seemingly nerve-bared lives, sleeps, eats, parents even. Does he feel like this all the time? Can he move at all? Does he follow the footie? Best of all is the aching piano-and-voice reverie of The Colour Of Spring, named after Talk Talk’s 1986 album, and (in my mind) his brief nano-moment of clarity regarding the notoriously grumpy, monomaniacal, career-sabotaging young man he once was. “Last to laugh?” he asks later on, then answers quickly: “No.”
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Further Listening
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock (Polydor)
Blue Nile – Peace At Last (WEA)
Paddy McAloon – I Trawl The Megahertz (EMI)
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Great to see this getting a mention. Fantastic, beautiful, album. I brought it when it came out based on the Mojo review. It's such a shame that it hasn't generated the word of mouth acclaim that other albums seem to get. Buy it. Then tell your friends to do the same!
Posted by Ian at 6:30 PM GMT 24/03/2008 Report Abuse
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Wonderful album, great man!
He is happy with his family in his house. He is retired from music since 2001. But we have the albums!
Posted by Anne at 4:07 AM GMT 31/03/2008 Report Abuse
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Very,very beautiful and peaceful. Crystal sound.
Posted by carneham at 11:35 PM GMT 04/04/2008 Report Abuse
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Absolutely peerless recording. In the day when records were made to be listen to with out interruption. "blessed love, the love I've seen, stare by idle stare" Hollis is true legend.
Forgive my English
Posted by Wim Lee at 10:37 PM GMT 08/08/2008 Report Abuse
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