{"id":35378,"date":"2021-05-26T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=35378"},"modified":"2021-05-26T20:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:05:21","slug":"the-blue-meaning-review-by-at-the-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-blue-meaning-review-by-at-the-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Meaning: Review by At The Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atthebarrier.com\/2021\/05\/26\/toyah-the-blue-meaning-expanded-deluxe-edition-album-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/atthebarrier.com\/2021\/05\/26\/toyah-the-blue-meaning-expanded-deluxe-edition-album-review\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-35379 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/atthebarrier21a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah \u2013 The Blue Meaning (Expanded Deluxe Edition): Album Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dark, intense and disturbingly graphic \u2013 an early masterpiece by Toyah revisited<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date<\/strong>: 28th May 2021<br \/>\n<strong>Label<\/strong>: Cherry Red Records<br \/>\n<strong>Formats<\/strong>: 2CD + 1DVD, Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl<\/p>\n<p>Cherry Red Records have done it yet again! This week\u2019s lucky recipient of their deluxe reissue treatment is Toyah and the band\u2019s second album, 1980\u2019s The Blue Meaning. In fact, Cherry Red are working their way through Toyah\u2019s Safari Records catalogue \u2013 the band\u2019s debut album, Sheep Farming In Barnet, has already received the deluxe repackaging and the rest of the bunch, Anthem (1981) The Changeling (1982) and Love Is The Law (1983) will be along soon \u2013 a veritable treasure trove from the happiest, most productive and most creative period of Toyah\u2019s career. Oh \u2013 and for clarity \u2013 at this stage in the career of Toyah Willcox, Toyah was the collective name for the band in which she featured \u2013 Joel Bogen on guitar, Charlie Francis on bass, Steve Bray on drums, Peter Bush on keyboards and Toyah herself on vocals (or verbals and unusual sounds, as the album\u2019s excellent sleeve notes put it.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/atthebarrier.com\/2021\/05\/26\/toyah-the-blue-meaning-expanded-deluxe-edition-album-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>At The Barrier<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah \u2013 The Blue Meaning (Expanded Deluxe Edition): Album Review Dark, intense and disturbingly graphic \u2013 an early masterpiece by Toyah revisited Release Date: 28th May 2021 Label: Cherry Red Records Formats: 2CD + 1DVD, Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl Cherry Red Records have done it yet again! This week\u2019s lucky recipient of their deluxe reissue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,27,110,13],"tags":[2673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35386,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35378\/revisions\/35386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}