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Roxy Music


Reviews (5)


Record collector

476 (2018 February)

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Oregano Rathbone

476 (2018 February)

"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".


AllMusic

20??

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

20??

"... 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".


The quietus

d. 2. Feb. 2018

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David Chiu

d. 2. Feb. 2018

"Similarly to The Velvet Underground and Nico, Roxy Music - now reissued as a 45th anniversary lavish deluxe set - is really ahead of its time for challenging rock's status quo. it remains a brash and experimental work that proved influential on future generations of musicians in the worlds of punk, post-punk, new romanticism and contemporary electropop ... Roxy Music - with its daring merger of different sounds and styles - is an anomaly in the group's consistently rich body of work. Forty-five years later, it still offers something to discover with each listen and pleasantly challenges".


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1998 februar

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1999 september

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