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The Human League – Travelogue (VG+/G+) – LP, UK 1980
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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.
Genre: Pop & Rock
Review
AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:Artist: The Human LeagueLabel: Virgin – V 2160Format: LP, AlbumUnits: 1Country: UKReleased: 1980Genre: Pop & RockA1 The Black Hit Of Space
A2 Only After Dark
A3 Life Kills
A4 Dreams Of Leaving
A5 Toyota City
B1 Crow And A Baby
B2 The Touchables
B3 Gordon'S Gin
B4 Being Boiled
B5 Wxjl Tonight