Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

1998 solo album from the former leader of Talk Talk. Seven years after Talk Talk's final record, Laughing Stock, Mark Hollis completed this self-titled solo album, to date the last thing he has put out. Where his previous band's music started as hard Synth pop and disintegrated into abstraction, Mark Hollis begins with silence, a full 20 seconds of room ambience. That breaks into compositions sprinkled with woodwinds and acoustic guitars, spread delicate and cerebral like Ulysses written on parchment paper.