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 reflected how, in the 80s, popular music, like the workplace, was being unmanned, rock’s masculine dynamics deconstructed. As vocalist and focal point for Japan, Sylvian was a poster boy for this societal shift, a Catford ratcatcher’s son... The post No Longer Lost: David Sylvian’s Gone to Earth at 40 appeared first on The Quietus.

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