After six months in Japan, Pierce and Mori returned to London in August 1986, with Pierce feeling inspired and keen to start a new chapter of The Gun Club. Kid Congo Powers was by now living in Berlin as guitarist with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds but accepted Pierce's offer, managing to combine working in both bands. 'The Gun Club was different – I kept going back to Jeffrey because the chemistry really worked. It never didn’t work and we didn’t break up because of the lack of chemistry.. We were like brothers' With Mori now on bass, they recorded 1987's "Mother Juno", produced by the Cocteau Twin's Robin Guthrie that featured songs such as "Thunderhead" and "Araby" and "The Breaking Hands". Pierce later said in relation to the album: "We envisioned an album that sounded like ocean waves."