Talk Talk: Laughing In Eden (A Re-Imagined Album)

I've written previously about my fascination with Talk Talk's supremely weird 1988 album Spirit of Eden . After a few years of relatively straightforward (if unusually sophisticated) synth-based new wave pop, bandleader Mark Hollis switched gears on their fourth record, a haunting, experimental song cycle that's relatively quiet and hook-free, with intermittent bursts of abrasive energy--a blend of the band's Euro-synth roots with free jazz, early 70s King Crimson-like prog, and the mid-period wo...