For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music

For Your Pleasure, Roxy Music's second studio album, came out on Island on 23 March 1973, and it's the last one with Brian Eno twiddling the synthesizer knobs before he was gone. Chris Thomas produced, and the band took the experimental streak of their debut and pushed it further, with a more elaborate, lavish production and a lot more experimenting.

Bryan Ferry croons like a lounge lizard having a nervous breakdown, Andy Mackay's sax and oboe honk and swirl, Phil Manzanera's guitar slices through the fog and Paul Thompson keeps it all anchored, while Eno sprays electronic noise over everything. "In Every Dream Home A Heartache" is the eeriest thing here, all creeping dread. The album climbed to number four in Britain and went gold, and critics now rank it as Roxy's finest hour and one of the great glam rock records.

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