Talking Heads - 77Released in superb new surround sound mixes (along with the rest of the Heads' studio catalogue) it's entirely apposite that New York's quirkiest chart act should now be back in the racks. Let's face it, half of rock's 'new' acts are trading on music created between 1977 and 1981 the band's creative zenith. Containing their signature debut hit "Psycho Killer", 77 instantly sets out Byrne and Co's stall. Honed by two years of Bowery dive one nighters,

released on their Wild Bunch label through Virgin Records on 8 April 1991

they would always inject a dose of psychedelic Afro grooves that would make their music unmistakably Beninese

After being thrown out of the home of his adoptive parents

I see the combine coming

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" "Epistrophy" and "Well You Needn’t

Vernon has always been a master collaborator

the album doubles down on the vitriolic sneer and blunt social commentary of their past work

Think of it this way: you might not yet know how the band that made Gravedigging is going to land‰ÛÓbut you know it‰۪s going to hit hard

Repetitive

to create an album unlike any Liars had attempted before

containing some of the band‰۪s most memorable singles (‰Û÷Monkey Gone To Heaven‰۪