With Quiet Life under their belt along with a label move to Virgin Records, not to mention David Sylvian’s increasingly dominant role in the band and the sidelining of guitarist Rob Dean, who would depart soon afterward, on Gentlemen Take Polaroids Japan fully reinvented themselves as slick, sleek, dance-driven aesthetes. It’s impossible not to hear where Duran Duran got some sonic ideas via the title track and “Methods of Dance,” but songs like the astonishing groove of “Swing” and the haunted, beautiful ease of “Nightporter” were on a further next level again.