Roxy Music's Siren CD Cover

Roxy Music released Siren in January 1975.Tracks include Love Is the Drug, End of the Line and Just Another High.The average rating from customers is 4.5 stars from 43 reviews, and the album is ranked #7119 on Amazon. Read more about Roxy Music or browse their Roxy Music CD Covers.

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There's little of the boundary-pushing primitivism that marked their self-titled debut.

Released before Roxy Music became a de facto Bryan Ferry project, but after their Brian Eno-influenced art-rock stage, Siren is a snapshot of a band in flux, and loving it.

Still, Ferry's youthful edge and the band's rough-hewn melodicism will shock those expecting to hear the adult-contemporary silkiness found on 1982's massive-selling Avalon.

Both camps should nevertheless admire this record for so recklessly and beautifully straddling that massive stylistic gap.

Featuring their first modest hit in the U.S., "Love Is the Drug," the record overflows with choruses that reveal their hooks slowly while drawing on sunny, spare instrumentation and Ferry's loopy, still-developing croon.

As the band wrestles between glam-pop, sleek dance tunes, and shiny, Moody Blues-esque rock & roll, they don't sound at all like a band running from its past.

Ferry and his cohorts are just taking back the reins, revealing the brisk melodies and strong songwriting that were the one constant in Roxy Music's lifespan.

--Matthew Cooke.

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