#49 LISTENING POST ADMIN DISCOVERY
February 22 1980
Toyah
Sheep Farming in Barnet
Genre: Post-Rock
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Neon Womb
Elusive Stranger
The Last Goodbye
Kate Bush + Laurie Anderson + Yoko Ono.
But, without the ethereal wistfullness of Kate or the determined performance art of Laurie or the atonal unlistenable aspect of Yoko. There’s some Nina Hagen in there as well.
Toyah seems to come from the no wave bowels of London or New York’s punk clubs. This is a sound that will almost completely disappear in short order, the very few allowed to play around like this being named Bjork. I don’t know if we credit the women of the early 80s enough. They were on the edge of experimentation and creativity. It feels like every decade there’s a burst of female musical energy and the world talks about it with surprise as though they have finally found their collective voices and then finds a way to tamp them down only to be shocked in 5 years when women do it again.
Toyah is less all the people I mentioned up top and more the female David Bowie.
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