Jonathan Lethem - Talking Heads' Fear of Music (Book) FEA 07/07/23 That style comes to a

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which is the culmination of 14 months of scattered recording sessions with the National's Aaron Dessner

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Jonathan Lethem - Talking Heads' Fear of Music (Book) FEA 07/07/23 That style comes to aIt's the summer of 1979. A 15 year old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs "Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music" and everything spins outward from that one moment. Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by Talking Heads) as a masterpiece edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky and fun. He