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Yet Holliss passing was spoken of with a level of reverence befitting a spiritual leader.
Mark Holliss last album (which was also his first solo album) dates from 1998.
Nevertheless, you feel immersed in a great body of water.
All the time, youre getting older and everything and nothing is static.
It feels far more bizarre to me that there should be no change.
That feels really very weird to me.
So in one way, it wasnt weird that soon after that, Hollis preferred silence over all.
One magazine snorted, Typical Typical, adding, the mediocrity is the message.
But … to the first one, theres no relationship there at all.
By 1988sSpirit of Eden, the band sounded wholly unlike itself.
They certainly didnt sound like their synth-pop peers, much less the iconic albums of that age.
The biggest albums from then are dense, intense, sprawling affairs.
And when Talk Talk releasedLaughing Stockon September 16, 1991, they were in a parallel universe.
The very next day, Guns N Roses releasedUse Your Illusion I & II.
Talk Talk utilized upwards of 18 musicians;GNR credits 19.
Thats the metamorphosis of Mark Hollis.
But even 1986sThe Colour of Springreflects that theme of change.
Spring is symbolic in more ways than one.
Its at a sublime moment like this that the entire notion of Christian rock feels moot.
Holliss music struck another balance, between the human and the spiritual.
Silence is the most important thing you have … [and] spirit is everything.
He achieved something that transcends category and instead hints at the ineffable.
