Roxy Music - Avalon
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Artist: Roxy MusicEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-03-14
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- More Than This
- The Space Between
- Avalon
- India
- While My Heart Is Still Beating
- The Main Thing
- Take A Chance With Me
- To Turn You On
- True To Life
- Tara
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Free Music Review: Greatest Album of All Time?
Hit: 5 Stars
Avalon is, quite simply, one of the most lovely records ever made. It has a sumptuous sound, it's power is in it's simplicity, and a great ensemble effort. The band works as a cohesive unit, none upstaging the other or interrupting the mood with a particularly wicked solo. Bryan Ferry's amazingly lush vocals carry the mood completely from emotion to emotion, and the melodies linger for a lifetime.
I go back and forth between this record as my all-time favorite, and HATS by The Blue Nile, which is breathtaking in a very similar way. Yet I never seem to be able to let go of Avalon, and my guess is once you hear it, you won't be able to let it go either.
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Hipper students of 1980s pop might pretend that Joy Division and the Smiths had a monopoly on melancholia, but for the older, more suave brooders, nothing could match the stylized desolation of Roxy Music's last album. Avalon was recorded in the wake of the band's hit version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy." Although that song isn't on Avalon, its tortured shadow looms large over "While My Heart Is Still Beating," the title track, and the unlikely Balearic anthem "More Than This." If time has been kind to Bryan Ferry's crumpled Armani chic, it hasn't exactly been vicious to his back catalog: Avalon sounds even more sumptuous now that the CD age has caught up with Rhett Davis's pristine production. --Peter PaphidesHipper students of 1980s pop might pretend that Joy Division and the Smiths had a monopoly on melancholia, but for the older, more suave brooders, nothing could match the stylized desolation of Roxy Music's last album. Avalon was recorded in the wake of the band's hit version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy." Although that song isn't on Avalon, its tortured shadow looms large over "While My Heart Is Still Beating," the title track, and the unlikely Balearic anthem "More Than This." If time has been kind to Bryan Ferry's crumpled Armani chic, it hasn't exactly been vicious to his back catalogue: Avalon sounds even more sumptuous now that the CD age has caught up with Rhett Davis' pristine production. --Peter Paphides
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