While their penultimate studio album never garnered significant acclaim, Roxy Music’s Flesh + Blood is a moody, influential gem and vastly underrated.
The year’s best album re-issues include rock legends, essential R&B artists, classic pop, jazz, alternative rock, global beats and so much more.
Forty years ago, Roxy Music stepped away from the recording studio, but not before leaving behind an album that defined the 1980s. It’s the ultimate marriage of high concept, high art, and high-quality popular music.
Things get hazy with drugs and bloody with violence, but hipster Hannah remains happy.
It’s not often that great bands can end a career on a high note with their swan-song albums, but Roxy Music brilliantly did with Avalon.
