Exorcising Ghosts: Half-Speed Mastered Vinyl 2LP Halloween2025 For this compilation

For this compilation

is it definitely feels like a body of work that belongs together

and the album began to click into place around it

“When We Were Very Young” is Smiths-esque jangle rock that is bittersweet

For their first album as Gilla Band

Exorcising Ghosts: Half-Speed Mastered Vinyl 2LP Halloween2025 For this compilationExorcising Ghosts (1984) is a 16 track 2LP set compiled and produced in consultation with lead singer David Sylvian, two years after Japan dissolved. This career spanning Best of features three recordings from the bands early career on the Hansa Records label (including 1979s Quiet Life) but mainly focuses on material from their two seminal studio albums on Virgin Records; Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980) and Tin Drum (1981). Features key album tracks