Roxy Music - Roxy Music - Music & Performance - CD

Roxy Music had a fascination with fashion, glamour cinema, pop art, and the avant-garde, which separated the band from their contemporaries. Tracks include "Ladytron," Sea Breezes," "Bitter End," and more.

Falling halfway between musical primitivism and art rock ambition, Roxy Music's eponymous debut remains a startling redefinition of rock's boundaries. Simultaneously embracing kitschy glamour and avant-pop, Roxy Music shimmers with seductive style and pulsates with disturbing synthetic textures. Although no musician demonstrates much technical skill at this point, they are driven by boundless imagination -- Brian Eno's synthesized "treatments" exploit electronic instruments as electronics, instead of trying to shoehorn them into conventional acoustic patterns. Similarly, Bryan Ferry finds that his vampiric croon is at its most effective when it twists conventional melodies, Phil Manzanera's guitar is terse and unpredictable, while Andy Mackay's saxophone subverts rock & roll clichￃﾩs by alternating R&B honking with atonal flourishes. But what makes Roxy Music such a confident, astonishing debut is how these primitive avant-garde tendencies are married to full-fledged songs, whether it's the free-form, structure-bending "Remake/Remodel" or the sleek glam of "Virginia Plain," the debut single added to later editions of the album. That was the trick that elevated Roxy Music from an art school project to the most adventurous rock band of the early '70s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Performer	Roxy Music
Music genre	Rock
Music subgenre	Rock
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Original release date	2000
Edition	Standard
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Roxy Music - Roxy Music [CD]
Track listing	Re-Make/Re-Model, Ladytron, If There Is Something, Virginia Plain, 2 H.B, The Bob (Medley), Chance Meeting, Would You Believe?, Sea Breezes, Bitters End
Record label	Virgin Int'l
Songwriter	songwriter
Track name	Ladytron, Sea Breezes, Bitter End
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N