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   82年発表の8枚目のオリジナルアルバム。ロキシー・ミュージックの最高傑作であるばかりでなく、「ロック史に残る不滅の名盤」との評価を確かなものにしている作品だ。
   ブライアン・フェリーの美学の極致ともいえる非常に滑らかな音処理と、AOR的でさえある美しいメロディ、緻密なアレンジ。成熟した大人による、成熟した大人のためのロックだ。とはいえ、16ビートやシンセサイザーの音に、80年代前半というニューウェイヴ全盛時代の空気はたっぷり詰まっている。
   ミックスを務めたのはボブ・クリアマウンテン。彼と彼の本拠地であるパワーステーション・スタジオは本作によって一躍名を上げ、80年代のロックシーンを代表する傑作を数多く生むことになった。（今井直也）

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Hipper students of 1980s pop might pretend that Joy Division and the Smiths had a monopoly on melancholia, but for the older, more suave brooders, nothing could match the stylized desolation of Roxy Music's last album. Avalon was recorded in the wake of the band's hit version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy." Although that song isn't on Avalon, its tortured shadow looms large over "While My Heart Is Still Beating," the title track, and the unlikely Balearic anthem "More Than This." If time has been kind to Bryan Ferry's crumpled Armani chic, it hasn't exactly been vicious to his back catalog: Avalon sounds even more sumptuous now that the CD age has caught up with Rhett Davis's pristine production. --Peter Paphides

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Hipper students of 1980s pop might pretend that Joy Division and the Smiths had a monopoly on melancholia, but for the older, more suave brooders, nothing could match the stylized desolation of Roxy Music's last album. Avalon was recorded in the wake of the band's hit version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy." Although that song isn't on Avalon, its tortured shadow looms large over "While My Heart Is Still Beating," the title track, and the unlikely Balearic anthem "More Than This." If time has been kind to Bryan Ferry's crumpled Armani chic, it hasn't exactly been vicious to his back catalogue: Avalon sounds even more sumptuous now that the CD age has caught up with Rhett Davis' pristine production. --Peter Paphides