Meanwhile, by the wildest coincidence, I’d been planning to do a post on Poly’s latest solo album, Generation Indigo, which is only her third solo album since X-Ray Spex broke up.

Based on the evidence below, like a lot of pioneering music icons, she might never live up to her own past, but she still had something to say, which is more than you could say for almost any female singer mainstream singer today.

Listen.