TOYAH
SOLO
EDSEL/DEMON
★★★★
The complexities of Toyah leaving her band – called Toyah – to become a solo singer – called Toyah – takes up several spreadsheets and pages of footnotes. In short, Solo rounds up the first six albums Toyah made when she left Toyah in 1985. It coincided with the hits drying up: the breezy Don’t Fall In Love (I Said) from first solo album Minx was her last Top 40 single. That coincided with Toyah falling out of fashion, rather than a drop in quality, as Minx is a reliably eclectic set making full use of her charismatic voice.