{"id":38809,"date":"2021-03-23T11:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T11:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=38809"},"modified":"2022-10-04T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T11:38:18","slug":"sheep-farming-in-barnet-review-by-velvet-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/sheep-farming-in-barnet-review-by-velvet-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheep Farming In Barnet: Review by Velvet Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Toyah – Sheep Farming In Barnet
\nExpanded Edition (<\/strong>Cherry Red)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any time is a good time to have Toyah\u2019s often-overlooked early \u201980s albums revisited, but in this case there seems to be no more expedient occasion to have this album back in the public eye, in its most impressive form yet. Toyah has come to prominence very much on social media during the Covid pandemic and associated lockdowns, appearing in a series of light-hearted and very amusing videos with her husband, Robert Fripp. Now, many of those in the \u2018prog rock\u2019 fraternity \u2013 who may have passed over Toyah\u2019s output with little more than a cursory glance at the hit singles \u2013 have been fond of expressing their surprise at the union of the ultra-serious King Crimson frontman, with his almost \u2018Prog Godfather\u2019 reputation, and the woman often looked back on as a kind of \u2018post-punk pixie\u2019 with wild hair and a handful of hits. This album comes out just at the right time to remind people that, in truth, the relative musical outputs of both parties at the dawn of the 1980s really weren\u2019t as far apart as you may think. This isn\u2019t punk, and it certainly isn\u2019t pop-punk. If you want to give it a name at all, art-punk is closer, as what is found among the 41 tracks here is a brilliantly adventurous mix of the post-punk approach of bands like Magazine or Wire, combined with an art-rock influence in the music itself, which is astonishingly mature considering these were 20 year olds at the time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at Velvet Thunder<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyah – Sheep Farming In Barnet Expanded Edition (Cherry Red) Any time is a good time to have Toyah\u2019s often-overlooked early \u201980s albums revisited, but in this case there seems to be no more expedient occasion to have this album back in the public eye, in its most impressive form yet. Toyah has come to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,27,110,12],"tags":[2924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809"}],"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=38809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38833,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions\/38833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}