| rdfs:comment | - Having established her position as a performer with a string of club hits in the USA and mainly a gay following, but achieved very modest commercial success with her first three discoalbums, Grace Jones went through a musical and visual reinvention with the release of her fourth studio offering. The singer teamed up with producers Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin, andSly and Robbie, Wally Badarou, Barry Reynolds, Mikey Chung and Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, aka the Compass Point Allstars, for a record that would be a total departure from disco and an exploration of New Wave music, blending reggae and rock. Warm Leatherette was the first of three albums recorded at the Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas.
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| abstract | - Having established her position as a performer with a string of club hits in the USA and mainly a gay following, but achieved very modest commercial success with her first three discoalbums, Grace Jones went through a musical and visual reinvention with the release of her fourth studio offering. The singer teamed up with producers Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin, andSly and Robbie, Wally Badarou, Barry Reynolds, Mikey Chung and Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, aka the Compass Point Allstars, for a record that would be a total departure from disco and an exploration of New Wave music, blending reggae and rock. Warm Leatherette was the first of three albums recorded at the Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas. The LP release of the album included shorter, 7" versions of some of the songs, due to limited capacity of the vinyl format. Most compact disc editions included extended 12" mixes of selected tracks that had originally appeared on the single-sided chrome audio cassette. Warm Leatherette charted only in the UK and the USA. Although it remains one of the least successful Grace Jones' albums in terms of sales and chart performance, it holds the credit for being her breakthrough record in the UK. It is also one of the highest-rated of all her studio releases.
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