Weekly Bookmarks

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Talk Talk - Live at Montreux 1986 From Aquarium Drunkard: By July 1986, Talk Talk were still a functioning live unit touring behind The Colour of Spring. But something had already shifted as evidenced by this set from that summer’s Montreux Jazz Festival. Listen closely and you can hear the architecture beginning to loosen: tempos breathe, arrangements open, and familiar material begins to drift toward something less fixed, less performative. This would be their final tour. Within a year, Mark Hollis and company would retreat into the studio to begin work on Spirit of Eden, a record that all but rejects the idea of live translation. As such, this Montreux performance exists as a kind of threshold document, one that captures the band onstage one last time before the music folds inward on itself. 🔖 The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It’s Forgetting How to Code The skills you need to be effective now are different.…