Parade is breathtaking. Raw, spare, and unflaggingly eccentric, it sounds radically unlike everything else released in 1986, but it’s baited with that year’s most brilliant No. 1 single, “Kiss” – a song that taught its listeners how to hear the rest of the album. “Kiss” is a slash in the air surrounded by negative space. Whenever the song is played, it seems to open up a vaccuum around it. It’s almost unfathomably funky, but it keeps going silent, and its silence yanks the groove forward.
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