GENTLEMEN TAKE POLAROIDS

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including an Obi strip and Abbey Road certificate. Half-speed master. Japan s fourth and penultimate album, Gentlemen Take Polaroids was released in 1980. It was the group s first album for Virgin Records, after leaving the Hansa-Ariola label, and the last to feature guitarist Rob Dean. It features the single ""Gentlemen Take Polaroids"" and the atmospheric, Satie-esque Nightporter , which was eventually released as a single in November 1982, shortly after the band announced they were to split. The album is widely considered as the one which consolidated Japan s unique aesthetic approach and sound. Mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road, each record was cut using a half-speed mastering technique; a specialist artisan process, which results in cuts that have a superior high frequency (treble) response and solid and stable stereo images. In short this produces a very high quality master, which in turn helps to create a very high quality record.