Leather Jackets
A neon-lit, synth-heavy departure from the piano-man archetype. Brittle digital textures meet themes of isolation and restless late-night energy.
1986 · Mercury
A neon-lit, synth-heavy departure from the piano-man archetype. Brittle digital textures meet themes of isolation and restless late-night energy.
1986 · Mercury
A cold, metallic fog of Yamaha DX7 synthesizers and heavily compressed gated drums smothers this restless mid-eighties collection. The record trades any remaining organic band interplay for a brittle, neon-soaked synth-pop production style that mirrors a period of deep personal and vocal strain.
How does Leather Jackets sound next to the rest of Elton John's catalogue?
Anxious saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.
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