Roxy Music - Avalon
180 Gram Black Vinyl LP Record, Half Speed Remaster
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Avalon is the eighth and final studio album by English art rock band Roxy Music, originally released in May 1982 via E.G. and Polydor Records.
Named after King Arthur’s final resting place of legend – described by Bryan Ferry as “the ultimate romantic fantasy” - there’s a kind of poetic justice to the fact that the last Roxy Music studio album became their most successful to date.
Summing up its myriad charms in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, critic Mark Coleman wrote of ‘Avalon’; “this austere, beautiful set of songs represents a mature peak” and, swathed in Ferry’s shimmering keyboards and punctuated by Phil Manzanera’s sparing, chiming guitar work and Andy Mackay’s poetic bursts of sax, ‘Avalon’ conjures an enigmatic ambience all of its own.
Conceptualised to work as a whole piece as opposed to a collection of songs, ‘Avalon’s individual pieces nevertheless stand up, no more so than on its elegiac title track, the dreamlike ‘While My Heart Is Still Beating’ and ‘More Than This’, which has arguably come to be the band’s most popular song of all.
Ultimately ‘Avalon’ is an equal parts album and fantastic reverie.
Remastered and cut Half-Speed from the original 1/4" tapes at Abbey Road Studios, London.
This album is a limited 2022 repressing on 180 gram heavyweight black vinyl with a printed inner sleeve and plain polylined inner sleeve with half speed mastered audio, pressed in Europe via Virgin Records.
(14997)
Tracklisting:
No. |
Track |
Time |
A1 |
More Than This |
4:31 |
A2 |
The Space Between |
4:28 |
A3 |
Avalon |
4:15 |
A4 |
India |
1:45 |
A5 |
While My Heart Is Still Beating |
3:25 |
B1 |
The Main Thing |
3:47 |
B2 |
Take A Chance With Me |
4:43 |
B3 |
To Turn You On |
4:10 |
B4 |
True To Life |
4:20 |
B5 |
Tara |
1:32 |
SKU | 14997 |
Record Label | Virgin Records |
Label / Model # | Universal |
Catalogue Number | RMLP8 |
Country | EU - Europe |
Release Date (Year) | 01 July 2022 |
Original Release Date (Year) | 01 May 1982 |
Barcode # | 602507460297 |
Shipping Weight | 0.3500kg |
Shipping Width | 0.010m |
Shipping Height | 0.314m |
Shipping Length | 0.314m |
Shipping Cubic | 0.000986000m3 |
Type | New |
Format | Limited Edition LP Record, 180 Gram Heavyweight Black Vinyl, Printed Inner Sleeve, Poly Lined Inner Sleeve, Half Speed Remastered Audio cut at Abbey Road Studios, Reissue |
Vinyl Colour | Black |
Genre | Rock & Popular |
Format | VINYL LP |
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