Japan - Quiet Life (2021 Reissue) 14th May The decision to include more

The decision to include more of Ghedi’s vocals was a conscious one and driven by a need to say something

a spiritual treatise clothed in the casual and natural manner of the proverbial porch

Bill Withers

Reflecting optimism and catharsis

debuted at #4 on the US’s Top Album Chart and charted #8 on the Billboard 200

Japan - Quiet Life (2021 Reissue) 14th May The decision to include moreReleased 5th March. That 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