#278/912
July 1985
Toyah
Minx
Genre: SynthPop
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Sympathy
World in Action
Remember when we all discovered (or rediscovered) Cristina in 1984?
This is like that except that it’s not good.
But here’s what this reminds me of: that we are saying goodbye to an entire sound; New Wave, synth driven pop influenced, I think, by Peter Gabriel as much as anything else and moving on to the Taylor Dane era of “synthPop”, which will morph into dance music. Which is what it really already is.
Toyah isn’t Taylor Dane. Nor does she aspire to be that kind of pop star. I don’t know what kind of artist she wants to be but, based on this, she’s just as confused.
She’s left her band behind and gone solo and the result is a mixed bag, ranging from new wave to dance to Weillian chanteuse, which I wholly endorse.
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