The foundations had been laid by their previous album, 1979’s Fear Of Music, in particular its opening track, the Afrofunk-inspired heavy groove of I Zimbra. We loved pop music, we really did, but now we were interested in creating sounds that would take us deeper and far beyond what people had come to expect from us.” You could be a great pop group but he won’t allow you.’ Well, we were in accord with Brian. How did they get there? There’s a telling passage in drummer Chris Frantz’s 2020 autobiography, Remain In Love, in which he remembers his confusion when Rhett Davies (who had recorded and mixed the group’s 1978 album, More Songs About Buildings And Food) announced he was leaving the recording sessions after just three days: “When I asked him why, Rhett said, ‘Every time you play something that sounds like it could be a hit, Brian says it sounds too commercial and nixes it. “We were interested in sounds that would take us far beyond what people expected” Recorded in the summer of 1980, Remain In Light is the sound of Talking Heads rejecting the working methods of mainstream rock music and following their impulses to make a danceable experimental album that, improbably, became their biggest success yet.
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