Gentle Giant

Civilian is the eleventh and final studio album by the British band Gentle Giant, released in 1980.[3][5] It was recorded at Sound City Studios in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles with the former Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. Consisting mostly of short rock songs, it is closer to a traditional rock sound than the progressive style for which the band is best known. The album also marked a return to Columbia Records in the U.S. and Canada after an eight-year hiatus; the band's last album released with Columbia had been 1972's Octopus.