 "Warm Leatherette" was the first of three albums recorded at the Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas.According to John Doran of BBC Music, "Warm Leatherette" is a "post-punk pop" album that, "delved into the worlds of disco, reggae and funk much more successfully than most of her 'alternative' contemporaries, while still retaining a blank-eyed alienation that was more reminiscent of David Bowie or Ian Curtis than most of her peers.