Talking Heads “'Talking Heads: 77” (Deluxe Edition) imports but also remain definitively a

but also remain definitively a Polaris record

they picked apart their own ideas of what defines a song

I wanted to write lyrics which gave the people of my town a voice”

and the arrangements increasingly intricate and innovative

Fizzling synths intertwine with chiming pianos

Talking Heads “'Talking Heads: 77” (Deluxe Edition) imports but also remain definitively aTalking Heads threw you off balance, but grabbed your attention with a sound that seemed alternately threatening and goofy. An album full of staggered rhythms and sudden tempo changes, odd guitar tunings and rhythmic, single note patterns, non rhyming, non linear lyrics that come across like odd remarks overheard from a psychiatrist's couch. A voice singing above its normal range, its falsetto leaps and strangled cries resembling a madman trying