{"id":36206,"date":"2021-08-24T19:35:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=36206"},"modified":"2021-09-03T01:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T00:09:32","slug":"posh-pop-album-review-by-at-the-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/posh-pop-album-review-by-at-the-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Posh Pop: Album Review By \u2018At The Barrier\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Anthems, hope and escapism \u2013 it\u2019s all there on the first Toyah album for 13 years!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Release Date: 27th August 2021
\nLabel: Demon Music Group
\nFormats: CD \/ CD+DVD \/ Vinyl \/ Digital<\/p>\n

“Thank you, Toyah, for a great album. And welcome back \u2013 we\u2019ve missed you!”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The last time Toyah graced these pages was back in May, when we reviewed the reissue of her 1980 album The Blue Meaning. In that review, we gave a brief a resum\u00e9 of what Toyah has been up to in recent years, including a mention of the hilarious You Tube postings, Toyah and Robert\u2019s Sunday Lunch (and if you haven\u2019t seen this yet, check it out \u2013 it\u2019s unmissable!) and releasing her (until now) most recent album, 2008\u2019s In The Court of the Crimson Queen.<\/p>\n

Well\u2026 She\u2019s back, and how!! Posh Pop is Toyah\u2019s first album of new material for 13 years, and it\u2019s a blast. Toyah herself is very proud of Posh Pop, considering the album \u201cA career best,\u201d and she could very well be right. It\u2019s a joyful album that draws copiously on Toyah\u2019s glam and punk roots and builds upwards from there; the 80\u2019s synth sound is still around, tempered and enhanced by lots of stunning rock guitar from Toyah\u2019s husband, \u201cBobby Willcox\u201d and the lyrics are clear and excellent, covering topics as diverse as the lockdown \u201cZoom Boom,\u201d space exploration, ageing, bereavement, the devastation of war, the fate of humanity and the Beirut explosion. And it all comes enclosed in a wrapper of addictive, anthemic rock and pop.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at At The Barrier<\/strong><\/a>. The album is released on Friday.\u00a0Pre-order\u00a0Posh Pop<\/em>\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anthems, hope and escapism \u2013 it\u2019s all there on the first Toyah album for 13 years! Release Date: 27th August 2021 Label: Demon Music Group Formats: CD \/ CD+DVD \/ Vinyl \/ Digital “Thank you, Toyah, for a great album. And welcome back \u2013 we\u2019ve missed you!” The last time Toyah graced these pages was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,2606,27,149,110],"tags":[2673,2779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36206"}],"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=36206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36215,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36206\/revisions\/36215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}