Talk Talk experienced one of the most unique career trajectories in popular music, beginning with synthpop and concluding by practically inventing post-rock as a genre. Perhaps even more strange, the band's initial experimentation on The Colour of Spring was very successful and granted them an opportunity to take things further, both in ambition and form. Mark Hollis' voice presents as unique as the band's collective sound, carrying their efforts before this pivotal transition during the middle of their career as a group. The Party's Over and It's My Life host a surprising maturity but are largely overshadowed by the band's later work for good reason. The group's ambition, creatively and also conceptually, paid off in artistic merit for their landmark releases in Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock. Hollis went on to produce a single solo album that continued the themes explored during the band's last two recordings but he retired from making new music after this release and passed in 2019.