Rock quartet Skye’s debut album has been over half a century in the making. The band came together in 1968, but it’s only now that they’ve started releasing music.

“Honestly, there wasn’t much we could do (when we started),” bassist Ray Ohara says of the band’s first go-around. “There weren’t many places we could play back then, and every member of the group started working on various other projects and bands. We naturally just kind of stopped.”

To be fair, the members have done a lot in the meantime — transforming Japan’s musical landscape, for instance.