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A darker more nocturnal album from glam / art rockers Roxy Music. Before I listened to this, I thought Roxy Music was sweet, edgeless 80s pop, 'cos I only knew the song Avalon. But this album definately does have an edge (as well as its older brother, which was simply titled Roxy Music), or has even gone over it, with dark lyrics and weird atmospheres, best showing in "In every Dream Home a Heartache", which sets off with a (musically) minimalistic poem like sequence to continue with a really hardrockin' solo. Another paranoid song like this is "The Bogus Man", a static drumbeat with the instruments used to create an atmosphere rather than really play melodies, though it still is music. Other stand out tracks are "Do the Strand" and "Editions of You", which are glamhardrock at its best. The fragile vocals and groovy keyboards of Bryan Ferry, the dirty saxophone of Andy Macay, the screamy but controlled guitar of Phil Manzera and the drumming of Paul Thompson are all excellent and the album is spiced up with the spaced out electronic sounds of Ambientmusicinventor to be Brian Eno.

4.5

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