Talk Talk – 10 of the best

Led by the hugely talented Mark Hollis, the London-based four-piece transitioned from bright, hard-edged pop to mesmeric, meditative post-rock over the course of nine years and five albums The opening track on the band’s patchy 1982 debut, The Party’s Over, dated back to Mark Hollis’s previous group, the Reaction. It even appeared – titled, rather brilliantly, Talk Talk Talk Talk – on a Beggars Banquet compilation called Streets. The track was strong enough to survi