“Translucence” by Poly Styrene - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1981 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1980s |
Almost as if the 23-year-old Poly is on a mission to calm down, this pretty, vaguely hippy-ish, affair was a million miles away from her work with X-Ray Spex, but her winning charm succeeds, with the contributions of Kevin McAlea (keyboards) and Ted Bunting (saxophone, flute) emerging as the most prominent musical tones. “Toytown” / “Sub-Tropical” was the 45 pairing in late September, 1980. Discographers seem split as to whether the album itself was released in 1980 or 1981 and I've been unable to establish the release year as a fact, but I side with 1981 as per Wikipedia and Rate Your Music in the meantime.
The Jukebox Rebel
01–Apr–2011
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:48]  Poly Styrene - Dreaming (Marian Elliott) Alternative Folk |
| A2 | [03:21]  Poly Styrene - Toytown (Marian Elliott) New Wave |
| A3 | [04:10]  Poly Styrene - Sky Diver (Marian Elliott) Cerebral Pop |
| A4 | [03:30]  Poly Styrene - Day That Time Forgot (Marian Elliott) Songwriter |
| A5 | [03:20]  Poly Styrene - Shades (Marian Elliott) Songwriter |
| A6 | [03:32]  Poly Styrene - Essence (Marian Elliott) Alternative Folk |
| B1 | [03:02]  Poly Styrene - Hip City (Marian Elliott) Pop |
| B2 | [02:32]  Poly Styrene - Bicycle Song (Marian Elliott) Cerebral Pop |
| B3 | [03:04]  Poly Styrene - Sub-Tropical (Marian Elliott) Alternative Folk |
| B4 | [03:12]  Poly Styrene - Translucent (Marian Elliott) Songwriter |
| B5 | [03:09] Poly Styrene - Age (Marian Elliott) Cerebral Pop |
| B6 | [03:47]  Poly Styrene - Goodbye (Marian Elliott) Songwriter |
