Often overlooked in favour of their contemporaries, Mark Hollis and co were one of the most influential English bands of the 80sIn his weighty 2010 tome Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music, Rob Young charted a century's worth of musicians who helped define British folk. In the latter stages he rightly identifies and aligns the often-overlooked Talk Talk with the likes of Kate Bush and Julian Cope as genuine outsiders whose music belongs to a deep-rooted British tradition – arti...
Guardian Music — Often overlooked in favour of their contemporaries, Mark Hollis and co were one of the most influential English bands of the 80sIn his weighty 2010 tome Electric Eden: Un... more info