[Review] Roxy Music (1972)
Roxy’s fashionable first defined the art-rock movement and featured a sense of high camp that belied the serious musical artistry underneath.
Category: Roxy Music
[Review] Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure… (1973)
Their surreal second album stands as perhaps both their brightest and darkest hour.
[Review] Bryan Ferry: These Foolish Things (1973)
Ferry turns his revolutionary eye to rock & roll classics and performs them in his own particular, aagh, idiom.
[Review] Roxy Music: Stranded (1973)
The third album solidifies around Bryan Ferry’s romantic persona, mixing torch songs with compressed helium in a can.
Roxy Music: “Street Life” (1973)
The single from Roxy’s third was another shot of art-rock adrenalin that took Pyjamarama’s pyrexic pillowtalk to the streets.
[Review] Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets (1974)
A candybox of art-rock confections featuring members of Roxy Music, King Crimson and Sharks that reveals Eno to be a one-of-a-kind kook.
[Review] Bryan Ferry: Another Time, Another Place (1974)
The man with the golden lungs knocks off nine more covers and one brilliant original without breaking a sweat.
[Review] Roxy Music: Country Life (1974)
Blah, blah, blah… you’re not even reading this, are you?
[Review] Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974)
Apparently, Eno was just getting warmed up on Jets. Once heard, this album will change your world.
[Review] Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head (1975)
The album that launched a dozen Manzanera solo records, featuring the members of Roxy Music and Matching Mole.
[Review] Roxy Music: Siren (1975)
A culmination of their commercial tendencies, and a lesson on the importance of leaving on a high note.
Roxy Music: “Both Ends Burning” (1975)
Siren’s second song for lovestruck, shipwrecked souls.
[Review] Viva! Roxy Music (1976)
A collection of live performances through the years, siren songs of haunted dreams from the past.
[Review] Bryan Ferry: Let’s Stick Together (1976)
Re-makes of Roxy songs make this his most appealing solo record to date, but the remodeled covers are equally rousing.
[Review] Bryan Ferry: In Your Mind (1977)
Ferry’s first full album of original material smooths over the rough edges of Roxy, which is disappointing.