Quiet Life
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| Studio album by Japan | ||||
| Released | December 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
| Studio | Air Studios, London, England | |||
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| Length | 44:33 | |||
| Label | Hansa | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Trouser Press | positive |
Quiet Life is the third studio album by English new wave band Japan, first released in December 1979 in Japan, Germany, Canada and other countries, then in the UK in January 1980 (due to a delay in manufacturing the album) by record label Hansa.
The album was a transition from the glam rock-influenced style of previous albums to a synthpop style. Though sales were initially slow, Quiet Life was the band's first album to chart and was later certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 100,000 copies.
In 1979 Japan collaborated with famed disco producer Giorgio Moroder for the one-off single, "Life in Tokyo", which featured a dramatic stylistic shift away from the mostly guitar-driven glam rock of their first two albums into an electronic dance style, prefiguring their work on Quiet Life.
Recorded in 1979 and released at the end of that year, Quiet Life was the last of the three albums the band made for the Hansa-Ariola label. The band switched to Virgin Records in 1980. However, Hansa later issued a compilation album (Assemblage) of singles and album highlights from the band's time with the label.
Quiet Life has been described as one of the first albums of the New Romantic movement, though Japan always flatly denied they were New Romantics.
In a retrospective review of the band's work, The Quietus characterised the album as defining "a very European form of detached, sexually-ambiguous and thoughtful art-pop, one not too dissimilar to what the ever-prescient David Bowie had delivered two years earlier with Low". The album is notable for being the first album where singer David Sylvian used his newfound baritone vocal style, which became one of the band's most distinctive hallmarks.
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