A sacred voice: Mark Hollis sang the English gospel

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Talk Talk began as 80s synth-pop stalwarts, but Hollis developed not only what became known as post-rock, but his own transcendent music

Often you intuited these things, rather than decoded them. His voice was a powerful conduit to other realms. The lyrics for the last threealbums are written on the inner sleeve, reproduced in a facsimile of Hollis’s own handwriting, but they sit uncomfortably on the page: terse, disjointed thoughts and phrases. It’s awkward poetry.

 

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Good piece among many today, but you might want to have a look at this: 'On one of their biggest hits, Life’s What You Make It, “Speech gets harder / There’s no sense in writing.”' That's a quote from the lyric of Living in Another World.

Top Man who will be much missed heads up Synth Britannia is on BBC FOUR Friday

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