Warm Leatherette  by Grace Jones

Grace Jones's fourth album was released in 1980 and is titled Warm Leatherette. This record marks a change in Grace Jones's musical style. Her involvement with disco comes to an end, and the artist focuses on new wave and its offshoots. Post-disco, reggae, dub, and funk are all here, creating an album that was innovative for its time.

The major shift in her career was assisted by producers Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin, who understood the stalemate Grace Jones had reached with disco and guided her to make a fresh start in her career. The cover, which was a work by the Frenchman Jean-Paul Goude, was the first cover that presented Jones with the androgynous look with which she became established. Warm Leatherette as an album consists mainly of cover songs, which are almost unrecognizable. There are songs by the Pretenders, Tom Petty, but the standout was the cover of Love Is The Drug by Roxy Music.

The album did not manage to achieve the commercial success it deserved. Nevertheless, Warm Leatherette stands as one of the most notable releases from the Jamaican singer, capable of transporting its listener to another era, from the transition of the '70s to the "glamour" promised by the new decade that was just beginning.