is Toyah prog-related ?

 

However for her solo stuff (recored as Toyah Wilcox) -  Prostitute and Ophelia's Shadow (and possibly Dreamchild) are more credible as Prog Related. Ophelia's Shadow is the best contender as it is essentially Sunday All Over The World part 2 and features pretty much the same line-up (Wilcox, Fripp, Gunn, Beavis)

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and try her albums

Changeling

Anthem

Love is the Law 

Phoenix

Minx

Court of the Crimson Queen

I might just start an appreciation thread in the Music related section

She has an awesome voice and is hot to boot, and I was listening to her in the 80s as a teen and now still am enamoured by her wonderful brand of music that is hard to categorise.

Toyah is IMO definitely prog-related, but not only a prog artist. I am not a huge fan of hers, although I have listened to all of her albums including some unreleased stuff. She might be more of a post-punk artist in the beginning, with some prog elements. Interestingly she has experimented with a wide variety of genres including post-punk/new wave/gothic pop (albums: Sheep Farming In Barnet [1979]; The Blue Meaning [1980]; Anthem [1981]; The Changeling [1982] and Love Is The Law [1983]). These are her first albums with the band named Toyah. Definitely more (post-)punk than prog, there are some neat tracks, I adore her early work. 

Toyah also experiments with pop music. Her albums Minx [1985]; Desire [1987] and In the Court of the Crimson Queen [2008] are more of pop/pop-rock albums. I do not mean anything bad with the "pop" label, in fact I do not think any Toyah album is bad. 

My favourite albums by Toyah are these with the most prog-influences. 

Ophelia's Shadow [1991] is my favourite Toyah album and it is the closest thing to prog. In fact I started listening to the album because of the interesting album cover. It is musically what I really like. Kneeling Through The Shrine, also released in 1991, but as a band called Sunday All Over The World, is like a second part of Ophelia's Shadow. Both albums feature collaborations with Robert Fripp and Trey Gunn. Trey Gunn has a song with Toyah called "Symbiotic" and Tony Banks (Genesis) has "Lion Of Symmetry", also featuring Toyah. That said, these are the most prog-works featuring Toyah and IMO they are really good. Too bad Ophelia's Shadow has been banned all over YouTube and it is unavailable to be listened for free. But it's worth it. 

Toyah is more of a singer/vocalist and songwriter rather than a musician. However she has played a plenty of instruments on her experimental album Prostitute [1988]. The album reminds me a lot of Danielle Dax (who is also one of my favourites, who is also prog-related IMO). Funny thing is that both Toyah and Danielle Dax are prog-related and Fripp-related (Toyah is Robert Fripp's wife and Danielle Dax is featured on Fripp's album "The League Of Gentlemen" on the track "Minor Man". I have read somewhere that Dax has been a girlfriend of Fripp, but I don't know if that is true, it is quite unimportant). 

Another two projects featuring the vocals of Toyah are Kiss Of Reality - Kiss Of Reality [1993] and This Fragile Moment - This Fragile Moment [2009]. Both albums are great and quite proggy. 

Toyah has released an album called Dreamchild (re-released as Phoenix). It features electronic pop songs with a prog vibe. I really like Dreamchild and some days ago I found out that Toyah has another unreleased prog-related gem, called Eternity or Madhatter. It follows the Dreamchild vibe. The track "Satellite Whores" might serve as a great example on what I mean with electronic pop/prog rock mixture. I really enjoyed this 8 minute track:

So, definitely Toyah IS prog-related in my opinion. But she is rather an amazing vocalist than a prog-musician.