Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads

This collection of tracks comes a couple years after the last part of the trilogy, of albums recorded with Brian Eno, the last part “Remain in Light” is still this bands “zenith” in my humble option, at no other time since have they been so inventive and groundbreaking, no with this album the lessons learned with their former producer have been taken in another direction, the only repeating theme is the use of “African” ...
...& “Remain in Light”. The possible reason for this with this album is that the band have taken the duties of producer as a collective between themselves, don’t get me wrong this is not a bad album but without the inventive genius that is Eno there is something missing, but what they have done with this album is bring the mixing skills of the late Alex Sadkin who worked with Grace Jones and men known as the “Rhythm Twins” ...

Miles13 04.02.2004 (17.02.2004) · Read full review
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...Heads with a new album, Speaking In Tongues. Although it featured many of the musicians they had worked with before, during their experiments with African and funk music, it was in many ways a return to their original stripped down style. While it lacked some of the impact of their earlier, bolder developments, it contained some strong songs: the heavy, bluesy Swamp, the surprisingly unambiguous love song This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) and ...

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