What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

Their third, from 1986.

This was recorded five years earlier than Laughing Stock mentioned above, but it could easily be a different band. This is a much more conventional record.

Contemporaries of Tears For Fears, there are some similarities between both their music, and the arc of their careers. Both started as Synth Pop bands, but both soon progressed to much more sophisticated music. Talk Talk pushed the envelope much further, though...

When we were listening to Laughing Stock, Mrs Tiggi commented that there's a bit of Traffic going on, with Mark Hollis's vocals bearing more than a passing resemblance to Steve Winwood's, and the music having some similarity. Ironically Winwood plays Organ on about half of the tracks here.

Very good album.


AllMusic 4+/5 stars.