condition (record/cover): EX / VG (heavy corner cresing, edges wear and small tag on front) Mayo Thompson and The Red Krayola's 1979 album for Radar Records. Thompson had been making radically uncompromising experimental music since the legendary 1967 Parable of Arable Land, and Soldier-Talk continues his lifelong project of deconstructing rock conventions. Songs feel deliberately awkward and uncomfortable - rhythms stumble and refuse to settle, melodies refuse resolution, lyrics deliver surreal observations with flat deadpan delivery. Guest musicians from the British post-punk scene contribute, including members of Swell Maps, but Thompson's singular vision remains completely uncompromised. Influential on Pere Ubu, The Fall, and countless art-punk bands who learned how to make rock music genuinely strange.