Laughing Stock | Loppylugs

Submitted by Matthew Baker on 16 April 2015 - 7:45pm

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Artist:

Talk Talk

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1 991

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Track-listing:

Myrrhman*Ascension Day*After The Flood*Taphead*New Grass*Runeii

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Nominator:

Bean

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2 015

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Laughing+Stock/318809

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laughingStock

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Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

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Laughing_Stock_(album)

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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Proper grown ups music

2-3-5

I have their last three albums and it's very interesting to chart their transformatin from 80s pop band to fastidious jazz/post-rock innovators. The longer, more structured songs on here are the winners for me - amazingly played and produced, and if you did a gene splice with the best tracks off Spirit of Eden you would have an impeccable record. As it is it makes fine swansong album for an underatted band of the 80s.
75

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

For the young sophisticate

1-4-5-6

It’s serious music for a serious hi-fi. The sound is just fantastic, they’ve got a lot of great musicians on here, sprinkling all sorts of sophisticated little phrases over the album. I love the arrangements, where you can hear each instrument and there is room for it all to breathe. I love the obvious passion, craft and thought that has gone into it. I love the jazz-tinged deconstructed drumming. I like the bits of noise thrashy guitar, which they don’t overdo. It’s difficult to pick out anything they have done wrong but somehow it does miss that final sprinkling of pixie-dust that would make it a classic.

I can’t really put my finger on what it needs. Maybe it’s his voice that doesn’t quite match the elegance and emotion of the instrumentation. Maybe it’s failing to engage with the lyrics, words that could help to explain the drive behind it all – it’s got a broody, impassioned feel but I’ve got no idea why. If I say it’s ambitious that can sometimes be a bit of a veiled criticism – it’s actually great but it seems to promise that little bit more, which never quite arrives.
71

reviewed by

Richard Norbury
68

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

3

A pleasant surprise to me having had no previous knowledge that such a band existed. Some of the sounds have similarities to other stuff I like (guitar work - The Clientele, vocals - Shayne Carter from Dimmer). Some of the tracks (1 & 6 especially) are too quiet for their own good and fail to lift off, but 'After The Flood' is just gorgeous and worth the admission fee alone. Interesting stuff.