Japan - Quiet Life (2021 Reissue)

Released 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 become one of the great classic British albums.The record is now the subject of a major new reissue featuring a brand new Abbey Road half-speed remaster of the original album, alt mixes, b-sides, singles, rarities and live material including the sought after lost Live at Budokan show from March 1980 previously only available as the 4 track EP Live in Japan.

BMG are working directly with original band members Steve Jansen and Rob Dean, producer John Punter and with consu