If you’ve sold your reasoning out?” “Give It Up”, Talk Talk
My favorite song, by my favorite band, off my favorite album, is “New Grass” by Talk Talk. They’re a band that transcends music for me. Every song from them seems to unlock some new, hidden understanding about life. You might know them for their hit “It’s My Life” from 1984, famously covered by No Doubt.
Talk Talk’s frontman, Mark Hollis, died in February 2019 during a difficult time in my life. I was dealing with a feeling that I’ve experienced so much, that of failure. Of utter, abject mediocrity. Everything I touched, whether it was my education or the relationships with the people I hold dear, seemed to slip through my fingers like sand from a broken hourglass. The world around me was immaterial. I floated through it like a ghost.