Choosing once more to utilise the services of producer/collaborator Brian Eno, Talking Heads continued to explore their own musical and artistic boundaries with their fourth album, Remain In Light. Their previous outing, on 1979’s Fear of Music, showed a marked progression from the nerdy jerkiness of their first two efforts, with its darker themes, esoteric lyrics and more experimental sound, and under Eno’s guidance once more Talking Heads set out for newer, unchartered territory.

Musically, the band sought to re-frame themselves as a group in the most fundamental sense: previously they had been essentially a backing group to frontman and creative…

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