Toby Manning, Jockey Slut, February 2004
Talking Heads were the everymen who weren't. They may have worn the uniform of suburbia but, at heart, Byrne's unit were dysfunctional white-funkers whose angular, jerky records still resonate today. Toby Manning looks into the dark side of their tunes.
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