Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972) [1987, Japan, 1st Press] {Black Triangle CD}
Rock, Art Rock, Glam, Experimental | EAC Rip | FLAC, Tracks+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 42:57 | 277,25 Mb
Label: Virgin/EG/Toshiba EMI Ltd. (Japan) | Cat.# 32VD-1103 | Released: 1987-07-05 (1972-06-16)
"Roxy Music" is the debut studio album by the English rock band Roxy Music. It was generally well received by contemporary critics and made it to #10 in the UK Albums Chart. The original LP release did not contain any singles. In July 1972, a few weeks after the contract was signed, Roxy Music recorded two more songs, "Virginia Plain" and "The Numberer", that were released as a single. It peaked at #4 in the UK Singles Chart and helped push sales of the album, which itself went to #10. Reviewing for Creem in 1973, Robert Christgau said: "From the drag queen on the cover to the fop finery in the centerfold to the polished deformity of the music on the record, this celebrates the kind of artifice that could come to seem as unhealthy as the sheen on a piece of rotten meat. Right now, though, it's decorated with enough weird hooks to earn an A for side one. Side two leans a little too heavily on the synthesizer (played by a balding, long-haired eunuch lookalike named Eno) without the saving grace of drums and bassline."