Joan Armatrading – The Key (VG+/VG+)

The Key is an LP by Joan Armatrading from 1983 released on the A&M Records label.

About this album

The Key is one of Joan Armatrading’s most accessible and commercially successful albums, sharpening her blend of pop, rock and singer-songwriter craft for a wider audience. Released in 1983, it marked a polished but still distinctive late-period peak, with Armatrading writing, singing and shaping songs that balance wit, tension and emotional directness. The album’s breakthrough single, “Drop the Pilot”, became one of her best-known songs and helped lift her profile internationally. Across the record, Armatrading’s strong melodic sense and dry-eyed perspective turn relationship stories into compact, memorable pop-rock statements.

Genre: Pop & Rock