Roxy Music Siren ( vinyl LP )

Release date: 20-07-2017(originally released in 1975)

2017 EU reissue vinyl LP

Roxy's 5th studio album,Siren has a thematic consistency that works in its favor, and helps elevate its best songs -including the classic "Love Is The Drug",- "Sentimental Fool," "Both Ends Burning," "Just Another High"-- as well as the album itself into the realm of classics.

Tracks:
A1 Love Is The Drug
A2 End Of The Line
A3 Sentimental Fool
A4 Whirlwind

B1 She Sells
B2 Could It Happen To Me?
B3 Both Ends Burning
B4 Nightingale
B5 Just Another High

Roxy Music, the art rock band synonymous with both style and substance, intoxicated with its cool cocktail of fashion, romance, nostalgia and futurism. Their album covers are also legendary and became an integral part of what Roxy Music represented: cinematic imagery set to startling, otherworldly music. For all their imitators and admirers, no one has ever successfully cloned the unique and indefinable fusion of elements that made Roxy Music icons.

Abandoning the intoxicating blend of art rock and glam-pop that distinguished Stranded and Country Life, Roxy Music concentrates on Bryan Ferry's suave, charming crooner persona for the elegantly modern Siren. As the disco-fied opener "Love Is the Drug" makes clear, Roxy embraces dance and unabashed pop on Siren, weaving them into their sleek, arty sound. It does come at the expense of their artier inclinations, which is part of what distinguished Roxy, but the end result is captivating. Lacking the consistently amazing songs of its predecessor, Siren has a thematic consistency that works in its favor, and helps elevate its best songs -- "Sentimental Fool," "Both Ends Burning," "Just Another High" -- as well as the album itself into the realm of classics.