More Talk, Less Head

Benjamin: have you ever listened to Talk Talk?

Jayson: not once

Benjamin: i am listening to Laughing Stock right now for the first time ever. it makes me think of laurie anderson, minus laurie anderson’s singing

Jayson: haha, you hate Laurie Anderson too, so I knew that was a bad sign

Benjamin: this record feels futuristically boring

Benjamin: like, “portending a future where we happily accept music to aggressively blend into the background to be loud enough to hear but too empty to digest”. like, it’s not ambient music—there are distinct sounds, and tones here — a palette of sonic experiences ok but this music feels extra meaningless in the way that its empty but “flavored” sounds are meant to connote some kind of actual meaning

Jayson: I’m not listening, but that does kinda sound like Laurie Anderson, at least her actual musical backing

Benjamin: in a more favorable comparison, it also vaguely connotes robert wyatt solo works but whereas robert wyatt always infused his music, however slow or winding or slight it was, with a human personality, these tunes sound like the soulless of constructions of brilliant, empty humans after having become enslaved by the robots we created

Benjamin: point: i guess i don’t really like talk talk.

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