With one jaw-dropping, honey-dripping synthesizer masterpiece after another, Roxy Music’s Avalon somehow manages to musically evoke the same intriguing and bizarre sense of time and place as its magnificent cover art. Even more than their previous masterpiece, Siren, this recording focuses squarely on Brian Ferry and his grandly skewed sense of “grown-up” love. Boasting a worldview any old soul like me could immediately sink their teeth into, I’ve still never heard a record so lacking in the sound of youth (a contrast even more evident if you’re familiar with the adventurous, Brian Eno-era Roxy). Firmly in my top 25 recordings of the 1980’s.
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