Put the blame on the Internet, cheap airfares, or the sexual revolution, but the end result is the same: Earth is now the size of the head of a pin. Which is why you’d have to be pretty provincial to ...

David Sylvian's extended flight from pop stardom in the middle years of the 1980s was an enthralling counterpoint to that decade's facile obsession with surface and relapse into materialism. While ...

David Sylvian is an unusual artist who has always interested me. He first came to prominence with the glam rock band Japan in the 1970s. Though less well known as Bowie and the New York Dolls, Japan ...

Since his final days as the frontman for the British New Romantic art-rock group Japan, David Sylvian has remained remarkably focused on a specific style of atmospheric post-Bowie crooning: Each ...

A new reissue of the UK group’s 1979 album captures David Sylvian and his bandmates as they evolved from their glam-influenced early years into the experimental electronic pop of their final two LPs.

The English artist was born in Beckenham in 1958, and inextricablyremains linked with his Japan band's five albums. His real ...