Roxy Music

"The new box set reissue of the band's self-titled 1972 debut album ... Listening to this heroically strange assemblage now, so boldly sure of itself yet perennially serpentine and chameleonic, it's more blatantly obvious than ever that Roxy weren't so much arbiters of a glitterball-globe future as lounge lizard-kings self-consciously minesweeping champagne flutes on the film sets of a fancifully re-made and re-modelled past ... You can, if you so wish, purchase the album anew on 180g vinyl, or opt for a 2CD set which includes a disc of contemporaneous BBC sessions, or go as all-out as we have with the Super Deluxe iteration which also features a disc of demos and outtakes, plus a DVD with eye-popping 1972 footage and a typically educative 5.1 remix from the "we-never-close" mix magus Steven Wilson".

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"... 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".

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