Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (24-bit/96khz Vinyl rip)

Their first masterpiece. Talk Talk got better with each album, but the step from The Colour of Spring to Spirit of Eden would be their most ambitious. Talk Talk's last two albums are so original and diverse that it's nearly impossible to stick them in any one genre. The band abandon pop song sturctures and the emotion is captured unfiltered. Hollis sings as if he's channeling God, backed by angels. The refrain of "I Believe In You" is some of the most transcendant music I have ever heard. It's hard to believe that humans are capable of creating art this beautiful; listening to this is a religious experience. Compare Spirit of Eden with any other previous release in the Talk Talk catalog, and it's almost impossible to believe it's the work of the same band -- exchanging electronics for live, organic sounds and rejecting structure in favor of mood and atmosphere, the album is an unprecedented breakthrough, a musical and emotional catharsis of immense power. Mark Hollis' songs exist far outside of the pop idiom, drawing instead on ambient textures, jazz-like arrangements, and avant-garde accents; for all of their intricacy and delicate beauty, compositions like "Inheritance" and "I Believe in You" also possess an elemental strength -- Hollis' oblique lyrics speak to themes of loss and redemption with understated grace, and his hauntingly poignant vocals evoke wrenching spiritual turmoil tempered with unflagging hope. A singular musical experience. --Jason Ankeny, allmusic try to forget the MTV thing and hear what radiohead wanted to be, became and beyond. #1* "The Rainbow" A1 The Rainbow / Eden / Desire 22:38 B1 Inheritance 5:12 B2 I Believe in You 6:01 B3 Wealth 6:35 LP Side A get here LP Side B get here or, in one swoop from cd Download here baby. via Shallboy and vinyl from holyfuckingshit40000