Into the Hot (Floy Joy album)

Into the Hot
Studio album by Floy Joy
Released	1984
Genre	Pop, sophisti-pop
Length	35:39
Label	Virgin Records
Producer	Don Was
Floy Joy chronology
- Into the Hot (1984) Weak in the Presence of Beauty (1985)

Into the Hot is the debut album by English sophisti-pop band Floy Joy. It was released in 1984, and featured three singles: "Burn Down a Rhythm", "Until You Come Back to Me" and "Operator". Both "Until You Come Back To Me" and "Operator" were minor hits in the UK.^[1]

The band featured lead vocals from Carroll Thompson, and music by Michael Ward and Shaun Ward. A follow-up album was released in 1985 which didn't feature Thompson, but Desi Campbell instead.

The album was released on vinyl and cassette. It has never been released on CD.^[2]

Floy Joy manager Paul Bower had managed the Ward brothers for two years. He flew to New York to track down producer Don Was - who he had never met - and played him the band's demos in Don's suite at The Mayflower. A three week session at the Sound Suite in Detroit followed and the result was Floy Joy’s debut album Into the Hot.^[3]

Shaun Ward spoke of the album in 1990, during an interview with his band Everyday People. He stated "The first Floy Joy album was an anthology of R&B, jazz... all the things we’d grown up listening to and absorbed. Though we liked it, we came to realize that maybe it was a bit too personal. So that’s why the second album is more direct and commercial. Unfortunately when we did that no one wanted to know."^[4]

Track listing

All tracks written by Michael Ward and Shaun Ward.

1. "Burn Down a Rhythm" (4:10)
2. "Baby You Know I..." (3:28)
3. "Holiday" (4:32)
4. "Until You Come Back to Me" (4:12)
5. "Operator" (3:53)
6. "East Side, West Side" (3:00)
7. "Into the Hot" (3:32)
8. "Mission" (3:04)
9. "Sebastopol" (4:26)
10. "Theme From The Age Of Reason" (1:22)

Singles

• "Burn Down A Rhythm"
• "Until You Come Back to Me"
• "Operator"

Chart performance

Album

Singles

References