{"product_id":"talk-talk-laughing-stock","title":"Talk Talk - Laughing Stock","description":"\u003cp\u003eTalk Talk's Laughing Stock is built from silence and the sounds that slowly fill it, and more than three decades later it still feels like nothing else in rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in 1991, the band's fifth and final album took the radical turn of Spirit of Eden even further. Mark Hollis and producer Tim Friese-Greene spent months at Wessex Sound Studios in London, inviting dozens of musicians to improvise over loose chord structures, often in near darkness, then sifting through the tape for fleeting moments of magic. Most of what was recorded never made the cut, and the result is now hailed as a founding text of post-rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Myrrhman\" opens with hiss and hesitation before Hollis's fragile voice inches forward one note at a time. \"Ascension Day\" erupts with jazz-inflected drumming and an abrupt ending that still startles. \"After the Flood\" stretches over nine minutes of slow-motion tension, while \"New Grass\" floats on a gentle, hypnotic shuffle that feels almost devotional.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is music that demands patience, then repays it many times over. Talk Talk split soon after, leaving Laughing Stock as a quietly defiant farewell and an ideal record for late nights and good headphones, with nothing else competing for your full attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57165875282225,"sku":"600753655191","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Talk_Talk-Laughing_Stock.jpg?v=1793186460","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/talk-talk-laughing-stock","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}