Vinyl Record
Roxy Music - Country Life
Roxy Music - Country Life on LP vinyl. A 1974 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1974
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1974 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Country Life is Roxy Music in 1974, making art rock feel glamorous, unstable and strangely disciplined at the same time. It was the band's fourth album and the second after Brian Eno's departure, but it does not sound like a group shrinking after a famous exit. Instead, Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, Paul Thompson and company push forward with a record that moves from the urgent sweep of The Thrill Of It All into the romantic ache of Out Of The Blue, the poised theatricality of A Really Good Time, the jagged bite of All I Want Is You and the Texan fever dream of Prairie Rose. The year matters because glam's first shock was fading, progressive rock had its own grandeur, and Roxy were occupying a sharper lane: European references, hard-rock flashes, lounge poise, literary mischief and pop choruses made to gleam under expensive lighting. Country Life is neither pure sophistication nor pure decadence. It is the sound of a band turning taste into tension.
Country Life matters because it captures Roxy Music at the point where their post-Eno identity became fully convincing. In 1974, the album showed that the band could keep its avant-pop edge while becoming more forceful, melodic and dangerous as a rock act.
For collectors, Country Life is a core Roxy Music studio title, sitting between the early shock of the first two albums and the later elegance of Siren and Avalon. The draw is the album's precise 1974 balance of art-school intelligence, guitar bite and Ferry's romantic control.
Glam-era art rock with urgent piano, serrated guitar, saxophone colour, continental drama, polished romantic vocals, hard-rock flashes and stylishly unstable 1970s studio movement.
Recommended for: Collectors of essential Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry-era art rock; Listeners drawn to glamorous 1970s records with real edge; Fans of The Thrill Of It All, All I Want Is You and Prairie Rose.
When did Roxy Music release Country Life? Country Life was released in 1974 as Roxy Music's fourth studio album. Which songs define Country Life? The Thrill Of It All, Out Of The Blue, All I Want Is You and Prairie Rose are central to the album's character. Where does Country Life sit in the Roxy Music catalogue? It belongs to the band's mid-1970s post-Eno period, when their art-rock style became more muscular and tightly arranged.