Roxy Music's Avalon av Simon A. (Princeton University USA) Morrison

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Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower¿reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered. Ferry parted ways with Eno, electric violinist Eddie Jobson, and drummer Paul Thompson, foreswearing the broken-sounding synthesizers played by kitchen utensils, the chance-based elements, and the maquillage of previous albums.The production and engineering imposed on <i>Avalon </i>confiscates emotion and replaces it with an acoustic simulacrum of courtliness, polished manners, and codes of etiquette. The seducer sings seductive music about seduction, but decorum is retained, as <i>amour courtois</i> insists. The backbeat cannot beat back nostalgia; it remains part of the architecture of <i>Avalon</i>, an album that creates an allusive sheen. Be nostalgic, by all means, but embrace that feeling¿s false