Prostitute (Toyah album)

Infobox Album
Name = Prostitute
Type = Album
Artist = Toyah


Released = 1988
Recorded = 1988
Genre = Industrial music
Length =
Label = E.G. Records
Producer = Tony Arnold, Toyah Willcox
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:er7m967o3ep2 link]
author = Smith, David Ross
Last album = "Desire" (1987)
This album = "Prostitute" (1988)
Next album = "Ophelia's Shadow" (1991)

"Prostitute" is Toyah Willcox's third solo album. It is a concept album and highly experimental in nature, marking a considerable divergence from previous works. It is uncompromising in its style, containing no obviously "radio-friendly" tracks.

The album was reissued on Toyah's own record label, Vertical Species, in 2003, together with its follow up album, 'Ophelia's Shadow'. In the extensive sleeve notes she provided for the reissue, Willcox explains the gestation of the album, particularly the scrutiny her recent marriage to Robert Fripp was under in the press, and the feeling that by the release of 'Desire', she had become, in her own words, "staid and predictable".

Track listing

# "Hello" (Willcox)
# "Prostitute" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
# "Wife" (Willcox)
# "The Show" (Willcox)
# "Dream House" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
# "Homecraft" (Willcox)
# "Obsession" (Willcox)
# "Let The Power Bleed" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
# "Restless" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
# "Falling To Earth" (Willcox)
# "Jazz Singers In The Trees" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)
# "Vale Of Evesham" (Willcox)
# "Ghosts In The Universe" (Willcox/Sidelnyc)

Personnel

* Toyah Willcox - vocals, guitar, keyboards
* Steve Sidelnyc - drums, keyboards, percussion
* Robert Fripp - additional vocals on "Hello"

Production

* Producer: Tony Arnold, Toyah Willcox