{"id":39958,"date":"2023-06-29T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=39958"},"modified":"2023-06-29T02:53:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T01:53:17","slug":"reviews-sheep-farming-in-barnet-black-vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/reviews-sheep-farming-in-barnet-black-vinyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews: Sheep Farming In Barnet &#8211; Black Vinyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumculture.com\/2023\/06\/27\/toyah-sheep-farming-in-barnet-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/spectrumculture.com\/2023\/06\/27\/toyah-sheep-farming-in-barnet-review\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-34648 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sfibnew20i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>A comprehensive review of <em>Sheep Farming In Barnet<\/em>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumculture.com\/2023\/06\/27\/toyah-sheep-farming-in-barnet-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spectrum Culture<\/strong><\/a>. The album was released on 140g black vinyl on 16th June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toyah: Sheep Farming in Barnet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toyah Willcox is much beloved in the UK as a broadcaster\/national treasure, a standing which has only been reinforced by her YouTube videos with husband Robert Fripp. Back in the early \u201880s, she and her self-titled band were genuine pop stars too, scoring three Top 10 singles, plus another 10 or so that charted. And yet, though she\u2019s been famous for the past 40 years and has never gone away, her music isn\u2019t much considered compared to many of her post-punk\/new wave\/new romantic peers. By the time the Toyah\u2019s debut, Sheep Farming in Barnet \u2013 initially an EP, and then extended into an album for its European release \u2013 came out in 1979, Willcox was already a familiar face and well-known personality on the punk scene and had appeared in a high-profile acting role in Derek Jarman\u2019s 1978 film Jubilee, so there was an element of skepticism in the critical response to the album. But like Jubilee itself, Sheep Farming\u2026 is definitively an artifact of its time, and as interesting as it is typical.<\/p>\n<p>The sound of Toyah in 1979 was definitely new wave, but it was a colorful, flamboyant and theatrical new wave, rather than the chilly, bleak and wiry post-punk of peers like the Cure or Wire. At times \u2013 also typical of the period \u2013 there\u2019s a noticeable Roxy Music and Bowie influence and the band (Toyah, plus guitarist Joel Bogen, Peter Bush and Keith Hale on synths, bass player Mark Henry and drummer Steve Bray \u2013 were accomplished enough musicians to stray far outside of the standard three-chord punk template for the majority of the album\u2019s tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumculture.com\/2023\/06\/27\/toyah-sheep-farming-in-barnet-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spectrum Culture<\/strong><\/a>. Browse Dreamscape&#8217;s <em>Sheep farming In Barnet<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/sheep-farming-in-barnet\/\"><strong>news archive<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumculture.com\/2023\/06\/27\/toyah-sheep-farming-in-barnet-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/spectrumculture.com\/2023\/06\/27\/toyah-sheep-farming-in-barnet-review\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39579 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sfibbv23a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sfibbv23a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sfibbv23a-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive review of Sheep Farming In Barnet, by Spectrum Culture. The album was released on 140g black vinyl on 16th June. Toyah: Sheep Farming in Barnet Toyah Willcox is much beloved in the UK as a broadcaster\/national treasure, a standing which has only been reinforced by her YouTube videos with husband Robert Fripp. Back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[149,110,12],"tags":[3116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958"}],"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=39958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39960,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958\/revisions\/39960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}