Avalon the final studio offering from Roxy Music would draw upon a smoother, more adult orientated sound giving us the now iconic single More Than This. Avalon would be yet another UK no. 1 album staying there for more than three weeks and in the album charts for over a year. Consistently praised by critics, Rolling Stone magazine wrote “Bryan Ferry stars as a remarkably expressive keyboard player and singer whose familiar mannerisms are subsumed in a rich, benevolent self-assurance. And reed man Andy Mackay shines in a series of cameos (his oboe meditation on Ferry’s Tara is particularly lovely). Ten years after its debut, Roxy Music has mellowed: the occasional stark piano chords in While My Heart Is Still Beating, for example, recall the stately mood of A Song for Europe, but the sound is softer, dreamier and less determinedly dramatic now. Ferry’s songwriting, however, has seldom seemed stronger.”

Each Roxy Music album has been Re-Issued with a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. London. To reflect the audio, all eight of the Roxy Music studio albums have had their artwork revised and with a gloss laminated finish so that each album is not just a record it’s a piece of art.

Never previously available outside of Japan, this SHM-CD title is being made in Japan and will be available for the first time globally. Includes the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.

SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) is a superior quality CD that is fully compatible with all CD players. SHM-CD utilizes a polycarbonate material originally developed for LCD screens, and the enhanced transparency of the SHM-CD results in more clarity, depth and definition of sound, bringing the listener ever closer to the music.

Tracklist:

01. More Than This
02. The Space Between
03. Avalon
04. India (instrumental)
05. While My Heart Is Still Beating
06. The Main Thing
07. Take a Chance with Me
08. To Turn You On
09. True to Life
10. Tara (instrumental)