The second album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, guitars, tapes, synths, keyboards, oboe, saxophone and vocals.
A guest added bass.
I started to review all the Roxy Music albums last month and quite liked their debut album. Weird vaudeville rock/pop.
Reviewing their eight album is a challenge and that is true for their second album too.
We still have some vaudeville art rock. But where their debut album had a nice, sunny mood...... For Your Pleasure has taken us to a pretty dark place.
It feels like we are in the underbelly of popular music on this album. It is not a nice place to be. This is not necessary a gloomy place. It is just an unnerving experience, these eight songs/forty-two minutes.
Bryan Ferry's vocals are pretty spooky and dark. The rest of the band joins in too.
The quality is pretty good though although not everyting here is good. But the quality of the band, their presence and their artistic endevours shines through. Ditto for the many interesting details on this album.
That makes this album a step in the right direction from their debut album. It is indeed a good album.
3 points
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