Life's What You Make It / It's Getting Late in the Evening

by Talk Talk

Life's What You Make It / It's Getting Late in the Evening cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: EMI
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 10:11
  • Community rating: 4.17/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Tim Friese-Greene

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Life's What You Make It' captured Talk Talk during the transition from chart-oriented synth-pop toward more spacious and textural studio work. Its insistent piano figure and Mark Hollis's restrained vocal delivery foreshadowed the band's later atmospheric direction.

Genres

Descriptors: existential, atmospheric, sophisticated, polished, expansive

Tracklist

  1. Life's What You Make It (4:27)
  2. It's Getting Late In The Evening (5:44)

Credits

  • Talk Talk - primary artist
  • James Marsh - illustration
  • Mark Hollis - written-by

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