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Toyah

Prostitute

£29.99

Released: 6th June 2025. Issued for the first time ever as a picture disc vinyl is Toyah's 1988 solo album 'Prostitute'. Toyah's most experimental and bold album comes with newly re-imagined artwork with rare imagery from the time. The collector's edition is housed in an outer jacket with die-cut window featuring Toyah images on either side of the vinyl disc. Side Two closes on a locked groove. A fiercely independent lyrical work, it is sonically also a radical departure from previous albums comprising drums, vocal and guitar meshed with a scrapbook of samples and found sound. Toyah explains: 'I would get up at four in the morning and capture the dawn chorus, record church bells, snippets of conversations and producer Tony Arnold would marry them into the tracks. We worked as if we were compiling a scrapbook with glue and paper, old newspaper cuttings, lost love letters, odd thoughts and tons of fractured emotions'. The album was written and played entirely by Toyah Willcox and Steve Sidelnyk who went on to record and play live with Madonna ('Ray of Light', 'Music'), Seal and Richard Ashcroft, amongst many others.

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Vinyl 12" Album

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    • Details

      Released:
      6th June 2025
      Category:
      Rock & Pop
      Format:
      Vinyl 12" Album
      Barcode:
      5014797912571
    • Description

      Issued for the first time ever as a picture disc vinyl is Toyah's 1988 solo album 'Prostitute'. Toyah's most experimental and bold album comes with newly re-imagined artwork with rare imagery from the time. The collector's edition is housed in an outer jacket with die-cut window featuring Toyah images on either side of the vinyl disc. Side Two closes on a locked groove. A fiercely independent lyrical work, it is sonically also a radical departure from previous albums comprising drums, vocal and guitar meshed with a scrapbook of samples and found sound. Toyah explains: 'I would get up at four in the morning and capture the dawn chorus, record church bells, snippets of conversations and producer Tony Arnold would marry them into the tracks. We worked as if we were compiling a scrapbook with glue and paper, old newspaper cuttings, lost love letters, odd thoughts and tons of fractured emotions'. The album was written and played entirely by Toyah Willcox and Steve Sidelnyk who went on to record and play live with Madonna ('Ray of Light', 'Music'), Seal and Richard Ashcroft, amongst many others.
    • Track listing

      Disc 1

      Track name
      Artist
      1.Hello
      Toyah
      2.Prostitute
      Toyah
      3.Wife
      Toyah
      4.The Show
      Toyah
      5.Dream House
      Toyah
      6.Homecraft
      Toyah
      7.Obsession
      Toyah
      8.Let the Power Bleed
      Toyah
      9.Restless
      Toyah
      10.Falling to Earth
      Toyah
      11.Jazz Singers in the Trees
      Toyah
      12.Vale of Evesham
      Toyah
      13.Ghosts in the Universe
      Toyah
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