The Human League – Travelogue (VG+/VG+) – LP, JP 1980, No OBI

Travelogue is an LP by The Human League from 1980 released on the Virgin label.

About this album

Travelogue is a crucial early statement from The Human League, showing the group sharpening its stark electronic ideas into something more focused and influential. Released in 1980, it sits between their experimental beginnings and the later pop breakthrough, pairing icy synth textures with clipped rhythms and detached melodies. Built around self-produced electronic arrangements, the album helped define the group’s role in the rise of British synth-pop while retaining the abstract, slightly austere edge of post-punk experimentation. Its best-known songs, including Being Boiled and Empire State Human-era material, point to the band’s transition from underground innovators to chart-bound futurists.