#mark Hollis

[hellkitepriest]

"but there are also two types of men. there are men that like girls, and there are men that like other men" — mark hollis, 1984

[lithuanyeah]

I’ve been obsessed with this one person on TikTok who’s redrawing album covers but with Pokémon so I decided to give it a go with the colour of spring. I think it looks p cool ngl but I think the audience for this drawing is literally just me xD

[jt1674]

[partyofthemind]

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Enjoying the dark, claustrophobic, post-rock classic on this stormy Sunday afternoon. Have this on vinyl, but had to grab the tape.

[keithvolf]

Mark is surrounded by butterflies. It was drawn to exchange drawings or something like that…

(I like the songs and music from the late work of this group)

[taohantumsomotthegioi]

my mark hollis doodle :}

[twixnmix]

Talk Talk photographed by Fryderyk Gabowicz, 1984.

[nocturna7]

Talk Talk - Such A Shame (Official Video)

[mistray-art]

Commish for my friend @lithuanyeah of Mark Hollis!

[abattoirstars]

oh yeah well if mark hollis is so good why didn't they make a-- oh...

[lithuanyeah]

Mark Hollis Painting Nr.6

Life’s What You Make It

Today I am offering you what I consider my favorite Mark Hollis painting. I was drawing it while listening to The Colour Of Spring in repeat, which heavily inspired it. I hope you like it!

[jt1674]

[hellkitepriest]

everyone say thank you talk talk for covering every possible eventuality

[musickickztoo]

Mark Hollis † February 25, 2019

[pretentious-art-love]

Album Reviews #20 - Laughing Stock by Talk Talk

Don't you feel like you are always screaming inside? Personally, I always feel like I'm yelling, my whole being, my core, is always burning away. We are always in this state of constant fall, of constant explosion, and when we look at the world around us, it can be so bedazzling how people can move with such serenity, such evenness, to make sense of words. We try to move with steadiness, but below all the external calm, all the clockwork movements, there is always this chaos inside, a chaos that could be so quiet or so imperceptible, but it is always burning inside of us, always at full blast. This, my friend, is exactly the kind of feeling that 'Laughing Stock' depicts—all the hidden chaos beneath the steady movement of life.

While Spirit of Eden was an exercise in the quiet apparitions of vigor, 'Laughing Stock' is an exercise in gloom and sorrow. These two albums combined form the two sides of a whole. Talk Talk's music can create such chaos while still being so unbelievably discreet. If someone recommends you these albums for a quiet, rainy day, don't trust them, don't trust them and run away! There is a disarray hidden between its apparent composure, and it's just so amazing, so amazing. There is so much hidden within those apparently soothing melodies and lulling rhythms. Very few times will you hear noise take over the lead of a song, but between all the sounds and guest instruments, this whole piece creates such wild dynamics that at times might feel like momentary wildfires in the most serene of forests. Not because the pond has no current at its surface, does it mean it doesn't contain a whole life of fishes swimming wildly below it. The most fervent moments of the music can be incredibly shattering force and, when it soothes out, you feel pure repose in the center of chaos, as if finding a steady rock in the middle of a turbulent river. With such disarray hidden between the little details and harmonies, you feel like you can hear ants yell to the sky, and what do you know, humans in the whole scale of the cosmos, are not that different from ants.

8/10

[twixnmix]

Talk Talk photographed by Fryderyk Gabowicz, 1984.