{"id":42859,"date":"2025-09-11T04:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=42859"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:33:20","slug":"review-chameleon-at-the-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/review-chameleon-at-the-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews: Chameleon | At The Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atthebarrier.com\/2025\/09\/10\/toyah-chameleon-the-very-best-of-toyah-album-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/atthebarrier.com\/2025\/09\/10\/toyah-chameleon-the-very-best-of-toyah-album-review\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42816 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/chameleon25e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah \u2013 Chameleon \u2013 The Very Best of Toyah: Album Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First-ever career-spanning collection covers Toyah\u2019s entire recording career \u2013 the band years, the solo years and the adventures alongside husband Robert Fripp. Chameleon REALLY is a \u2018Best Of\u2019 collection<\/p>\n<p>Release Date: 5th September 2025<br \/>\nLabel: Cherry Red Records<br \/>\nFormats: 2xCD, 3xCD+Blu Ray, 2LP Vinyl<\/p>\n<p><strong>A TRUE \u2018BEST OF\u2019 COLLECTION<\/strong><br \/>\nRule-breaker, boundary-pusher, consummate entertainer. Even, dare I suggest it \u2013 National Treasure. Toyah Wilcox has been, and remains, all of these things \u2013 and she fulfills her roles in many guises, from attitude-loaded punk to loving companion. As the title to this career-spanning collection suggests, Toyah is a persona-shifting chameleon.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that Chameleon is the first ever comprehensive retrospective of Toyah\u2019s varied recording career, a career that began as long ago as 1977 when fledgling actor Toyah hooked up with guitarist\/songwriter Joe Bogen and keyboardist Pete Bush to form the band that would soon be christened \u2018Toyah.\u2019 Tall trees from little acorns grow \u2013 Toyah\u2019s musical career went on to spawn over 20 albums and delivered eight Top 40 singles. And the highlights of that career are all here. Chameleon is, truly, a \u2018Best Of\u2019 collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/atthebarrier.com\/2025\/09\/10\/toyah-chameleon-the-very-best-of-toyah-album-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>At The Barrier<\/strong><\/a>. See links to other <em>Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah<\/em> reviews <a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/chameleon-reviews\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. Buy the album on 3CD\/Bluray Boxset, 2CD &amp; Double Vinyl at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/artist\/toyah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cherry Red<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah \u2013 Chameleon \u2013 The Very Best of Toyah: Album Review First-ever career-spanning collection covers Toyah\u2019s entire recording career \u2013 the band years, the solo years and the adventures alongside husband Robert Fripp. Chameleon REALLY is a \u2018Best Of\u2019 collection Release Date: 5th September 2025 Label: Cherry Red Records Formats: 2xCD, 3xCD+Blu Ray, 2LP Vinyl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,110],"tags":[2673,3369,3394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859"}],"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=42859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42874,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions\/42874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}