{"id":22002,"date":"2010-02-27T13:42:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=22002"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:43:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T12:43:51","slug":"the-rocker-we-are-the-humanscrimson-queen-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-rocker-we-are-the-humanscrimson-queen-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"The-Rocker – We Are The Humans\/Crimson Queen Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"‘The-Rocker\/Zeitgeist’, “an idiosyncratic collection of music news and reviews”, recently gave the thumbs-up to both ‘We Are The Humans’ and ‘In The Court Of The Crimson Queen’;<\/p>\n

The Humans – We Are The Humans<\/strong>
\nThe Humans are an odd little cove. A project that was first put together to perform new songs at a series of concerts in Estonia, they comprise Chris Wong, Bill Rieflin and one Toyah Willcox.<\/p>\n

After the shows were completed, they went into the studio to record the material, before heading back to Estonia to perform them again. Which is a curious, yet perversely intriguing way of doing things.<\/p>\n

Most of the music comprises dense, electronic landscapes, with the clipped, robotic voice of Toyah acting as an additional instrument. It’s certainly interesting, and bears more than a passing resemblance to solo David Sylvain. Which is a good thing. ‘Twisted Soul’ is probably the closest thing to anything conventional, and acts as a good entry point. Me? I liked it.<\/p>\n

Toyah – In The Court Of The Crimson Queen<\/strong>
\nListening to The Humans album reminded me that I had quite forgotten how good the last Toyah album was, the wittily titled “In The Court Of The Crimson Queen”.<\/p>\n

Toyah is one of those people who only really became interesting to me after the hits dried up, and this album is a bit of a secret joy. There’s half a dozen songs here that deserved to be huge with the likes of ‘Sensational’, the bluesy (!) ‘Latex Messiah’ and ‘Legacy’, utter delights. However, it would be a brave man who listened to ‘Come’ and ‘Bad Man’ more than once.<\/p>\n

You really ought to buy this, just so Toyah doesn’t have to slum it on the Vampires Rock tour again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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