Talk Talk: Come On, Market Me
Adrian Deevoy, Q, February 1988
Stylists have thrown in the towel, promotional persons have blanched, record execs have shed real tears as, over six years, Talk Talk have been increasingly impervious to the selling machine. The new album is a glorious indulgence – defiantly downbeat, relentlessly demanding, "free form" ...
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