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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