The unnamed debut album by the British group Roxy Music exploded in 1972 like a bomb under pop music, still dominated by progressive post-hippie sounds. Roxy Music was certainly progressive as well, but members like singer Bryan Ferry and sound wizard Brian Eno had a background in the visual arts and unleashed their artistic and post-modern ideas on songs that balanced between contemporary avant-garde,
… glam rock and 1950s rock 'n' roll. . Not only the six band members but also the record cover radiated unprecedented glamor. Successor For Your Pleasure (1973) not only sounded more balanced but also darker - in style in an almost black cover on which model Amanda Lear in a black evening dress exhausts her black panther. Ferry is at his theatrical best as a singer and lyricist and already performs a variety of colorful muses (Mona Lisa, the Sphinx, Lolita) in the driving opening song Do The Strand. But after catchy songs like Beauty Queen and Editions Of You, the album becomes more brooding. In the drawn out In Every Dream A Heartache, which only erupts in the finale, Ferry celebrates loneliness with a sonorous voice (and a sex doll), while in The Bogus Man, with spacey drone effects by Eno, paranoia resounds. The darkly pulsating title track with the sad sounding closing mantra 'Tara' concludes one of the most spectacular albums of the seventies. (MR) In the drawn out In Every Dream A Heartache, which only erupts in the finale, Ferry celebrates loneliness with a sonorous voice (and a sex doll), while in The Bogus Man, with spacey drone effects by Eno, paranoia resounds. The darkly pulsing title track with the sad sounding closing mantra 'Tara' concludes one of the most spectacular albums of the seventies. (MR) In the drawn out In Every Dream A Heartache, which only erupts in the finale, Ferry celebrates loneliness with a sonorous voice (and a sex doll), while in The Bogus Man, with spacey drone effects by Eno, paranoia resounds. The darkly pulsating title track with the sad sounding closing mantra 'Tara' concludes one of the most spectacular albums of the seventies. (MR)more
