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Toyah

Prostitute

£27.99

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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