Roxy Music: Country Life (SHM-CD)

"Country Life" is regarded as Roxy Music's most consistent and sophisticated album. The album's artwork is still considered controversial in some countries today, but is nevertheless an icon in the world. Musically and lyrically, "Country Life" is considered more cynical and harder rocking than previous Roxy Music albums. "Country Life" is an album that is and will always be in the top 100 album charts of all time. The first Roxy album to crack the US top 40, it showed that after four albums, the band was still as hungry, bold and groundbreaking as they were on their debut two years earlier. "Country Life" opens with the haunting, driving "The Thrill Of It All" and effortlessly blends avant-garde song structures, touching ballads, English nostalgia, gritty hard rock, European influences and even medieval Christian references without skipping a beat. The resulting album is another immensely satisfying musical experience. Compared to their peers, it's almost frightening the sounds Roxy Music have been able to perfect and make their own. Remastered edition. With Japanese translation of the lyrics.