Into the Hot (Floy Joy album)

Into the Hot
Studio album by Floy Joy
Released	1984
Length	35:39
Label	Virgin
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 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