Japan - Quiet LifeThat Japans breakthrough record Quiet Life was released in both 1979 and 1980 is uniquely fitting for a band who were about to step out of the glam rock, post punk shadows of the late 70s and deliver an as yet genre less record that would come to define the 80s. Quiet Life was the third, final and most successful release on the Hansa Records label. A forerunner for the alternative new wave sound of the new decade, the album would become one of the

riffs and ideas resurface and recur

everything about it is icky and evil and dangerous

a shape-shifter of an album that has already garnered comparisons to Television's 1977 landmark debut Marquee Moon

and several publishing companies

whose music explores everything from identity

Erratic though it may be

railway and dock workers

'Friends' was recorded in Bryan Ferry's private studio in London's Olympia and was self-produced by the band

all filtered through Dan's own unique perspective

“A cult figure

Luck or Magic - debut album by Britta Phillips

Songs recorded by the band