With the faint air of Hell freezing over, the long-estranged former members of Talking Heads put three decades of bitter post-divorce acrimony on pause last September, painting on their best smiles to jointly promote the remastered 40th anniversary reissue of their seminal concert movie Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme. Initially re-released last year, this expanded soundtrack album is now back in deluxe double vinyl, CD and Blu-ray formats, sounding super-crisp and box-fresh in digitally tweaked audio.
While both film and album will be familiar to even casual Talking Heads fans, this shiny time capsule of a brilliant avant-rock band embracing mainstream pop success with wit, style, arty attitude and groove-heavy swagger can still floor you.
