GHOSTS: JOURNEYS TO POST-POP – HOW DAVID SYLVIAN, MARK HOLLIS AND KATE BUSH REINVENTED POP MUSIC

Matthew Restall SONICBOND

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Persuasive study of three left-field pathfinders. While it might be the case that most pop music is “post-pop” now, the artists discussed in this US-based history professor’s book remain groundbreaking figures to a certain generation. The exploratory yet emotionally powerful work of Sylvian/Japan, Hollis/Talk Talk and Bush has often been eulogised, usually as art-rock or post-rock, even as antipop. The influence upon them of Bowie, Roxy, Scott Walker and others is undersold here, but it’s a fascinating read, if perhaps too in thrall to the Mark Fisher school of cultural theory and hauntology, and unaware of how much UK music journalism has discussed these diamonds. For fans of such enduring wonders as Brilliant Trees, Laughing Stock and Aerial, it’ll hook from page one. Japan’s unearthly Ghosts on Top Of The…

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