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    • Consider me *prompted*, in fact since I saw this last night, I have…

      …listened to this on YouTube and enjoyed it enormously (as someone else says, imitation Talk Talk is still going to be pretty awesome)

      …listened to a load of other tracks and live sessions on YouTube (and read up on them)

      …gone to sleep listening to the album on Spotify

      …made the breakfast listening via Alexa

      …driven to work listening to the album

      …bought the vinyl when I got to work

      …bought two tickets to the London show on 23rd May (in a 350 capacity new venue nr London Bridge)

      …planned to listen to it on the way home this evening

      So, THAT is really the power of YouTube on the music industry. But ONLY when the output is actually *any good*…

      Thanks to the OP. You’ve given me pleasure and cost me money. You little tinker…It used to be Peel that did this for me, now it’s this website. Shearwater are going to be researched later!

  5. Crikey, that really is quite “influenced by”, isn’t it?

    I think it is more a question of “Old Talk Talk single” – it sounds like something from the second TT album, especially when it gets to the chorus.

  6. I thought this was quite funny, from the Pitchfork review…

    “It’s not like they have any real issue with telegraphing their influences. They’ve covered Prefab Sprout in their live sets, and Lowell has acknowledged that Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis is, “especially vocally, a big influence on me.” This is a massive understatement on two levels, the first of which is that Mark Hollis is the biggest overall influence in every conceivable way on this album’s sound. Most specifically, it lookbooks 1986’s The Colour of Spring, the midpoint between the state-of-the-art pop of early Talk Talk and the timeless, anti-pop spirituals of their later work. Meanwhile, Lowell doesn’t just have almost the exact same vocal timbre as Hollis, both sonorous and strangely clipped like a muted horn, but the same inflections and melodic cadences. Hollis isn’t just the biggest influence on Lowell’s vocals—he might be the only one.”

  7. Their single Loveless from last year (or maybe the year before) reduced me to tears. At last, someone else loves Talk Talk as much as I do. Their contribution to the genre is again not too shabby. It’s beautiful.

  10. Nice but not an improvement on Talk Talk, as if.

    Has anybody heard the US band ‘Shearwater’, influences include Talk Talk, Tears For Fears but they also have their own unique sound. Very good band, recommend.

  11. I picked up the Lo Moon LP last month. After living with it since then it’s obviously the lost brother/cousin of The Colour of Spring. I just love it.

    Similar sentiments for the Shearwater Rook LP which was recommended on the old site by a lady from Scotland whoever you were.

    On the other hand (and bearing in mind that I absolutely love both above mentioned LP’s) sometimes I feel it’s a bit done before….a bit Pinkies/ 1963 Beatles/John Lennon if you understand

    Ok not as bad as that, but still … !

    Anyway the Lo Moon LP is terrific.

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