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Travelogue

The Human League

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Album Review

The Human League's second album, Travelogue, was their first to be released in the U.S. (Not that you would have noticed at the time, given the limited distribution; the album subsequently was picked up for reissue by Virgin/Atlantic in 1988.) It was also the last to feature the nearly original lineup of Martyn Ware, Ian Marsh, Philip Oakey, and Adrian Wright. Already, the band's synthesizer textures and Oakey's mannered voice were starting to lean in a pop direction, but much of this album retained the austere tone of earlier synthesizer groups such as Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. The conflicting musical directions led to a split in the band after this album, with Ware and Marsh forming Heaven 17 and Oakey and Wright reorganizing a new version of the Human League. Ironically, both ventures were more pop-oriented than before.

Customer Reviews

The greatest electronic album EVER!

Forget Kraftwerk, this is the real thing. Totally original-it's sounds are borne of the day's technology and then amplified through 3 very smart blokes from Sheffield. It's pre midi - an amazing listening experience that sums up an era. If you want to hear a genre being born, analogue to digital, gasping for air, exploring the standard - this is THE album you need to hear. "Reproduction" is good too but "Travelogue" is possibly the greatest electronic album by an English band ever produced. I loved it 1978. I loved "Compurtweld" in 1981 too, but this is part of the history of the British Isles. They showed Kraftwerk how to do it.

Great Album

A good album, nearly as good as Reproductions. I purchased it on its original release, before HL split and it all went pear shaped. (well too much pop for me)!

A fine album.

Although a bit patchy at times Travelogue still enthralls. Unlike their first album you get the feeling that the Human League were struggling to produce a cohesive work and this must have had something to do with the emerging tensions within the band. The two covers - Only After Dark and bizarrely Gordon's Gin seem at odds with the rest of the album. Also, to include an edited version of Toyota City (originally over 7 minutes long) seems a bit tossed off. Why not include the full version? It makes you think they had no faith in the track as it was but nothing else to replace it with. Still when it shines as on WXJL Tonight or Life Kills it really shines. Well worth getting and still better the Dare.

Biography

Formed: 1977 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Genre: Pop

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Synth pop's first international superstars, the Human League were among the earliest and most innovative bands to break into the pop mainstream on a wave of synthesizers and electronic rhythms, their marriage of infectious melodies and state-of-the-art technology proving enormously influential on countless acts following in their wake. The group was formed in Sheffield, England, in 1977 by synth players Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh, who'd previously teamed as the duo Dead Daughters; following a brief...
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