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No Longer Lost: David Sylvian’s Gone to Earth at 40

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No Longer Lost: David Sylvian’s Gone to Earth at 40
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Both soothing and unsettling, David Sylvian's much-overlooked second solo album is as much a forerunner of post rock as more celebrated work by Talk Talk, argues Toby Manning, as he returns to the album four decades on
With David Sylvian often dismissed as ‘new age’, his evanescent second solo album, Gone To Earth, might be better remembered if reframed as dream pop or post rock. Jettisoning the few vestiges of rock that remained on his solo debut, 1984’s Brilliant Trees, Sylvian’s Gone To Earth

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