The Colour of Spring LP

Talk Talk's third album came out in 1986 on EMI/Parlophone, hit number eight in the UK, and held the chart for 21 weeks behind "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in Another World," both hits abroad too. This is where the band shed its synth-pop skin for a bigger sound built on session musicians, kind of like a garage band suddenly hiring an orchestra. This 40th-anniversary pressing is half-speed mastered from the original tapes by engineer Matt Colton, overseen by drummer Lee Harris and Mark Hollis's son Charlie Hollis.