Roxy Music / SHM-CD – 5CD Bundle

Description

5 x SHM-CD bundle 5 albums Roxy Music For Your Pleasure Stranded Country Life Siren

This set of limited edition Japanese ‘paper sleeve’ / mini-LP SHM-CD releases features the first five Roxy Music studio albums. SHM-CD is compatible with all CD players!

This is a BUNDLE containing the following five albums on SHM-CD:

1. Roxy Music
2. For Your Pleasure
3. Stranded
4. Country Life
5. Siren

Each are presented as vinyl replica CDs with the usual exacting standards from Japan including OBI-strip, extra booklet with Japanese lyrics, ‘rice paper’ sleeve for disc protection and re-sealable outer clear sleeve.

For details of masterings and other details, see the tracklistings.

There are only 50 of these bundles available. ONE PER CUSTOMER please (multiple orders will be cancelled!).

All five SHM-CDs are released on 18 July 2025 and will ship on, or around, that date.

Additional info:

Roxy Music

Arriving seemingly perfectly formed from nowhere, Roxy Musics self-titled debut instantly propelled the band into the affections of both the music-buying public and the serious music press no mean feat in 1972. Frontman Bryan Ferrys lyrical evocations of romance and glamour, pop-art references and allusions to both old Hollywood and future shock sci-fi came showcased against an eclectic and unique musical soundscape forever immortalised in the records 1950s-style album cover one of the most iconic record sleeves of the 1970s.

Debuting inside the UK Top 10 the album would go on to be seen one of the most pioneering and important debut albums of all time. For this 50th anniversary edition Roxy Music has been given a fresh half-speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios in London. To reflect the enhanced audio, the album artwork has been similarly revised with lyrics and a deluxe gloss laminated finish.

This isnt just a record; its a piece of modern art.

For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music followed up their stunning debut with For Your Pleasure, an album thats come to be regarded by many as the ultimate musical expression of Roxy Musics early period. For this record the band found the freedom to develop the songs along experimental lines in the studio, resulting in an immensely satisfying musical statement. Added to Bryan Ferrys alternately seductive and dystopian imagery, Enos other-worldly synth sounds and tape loop effects were propelled by the virtuoso musical powerhouse of Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson.

Ultimately, the sum of these parts continues to earn For Your Pleasure a place in many Best Albums Of All Time listings and its music is as timeless and fresh today as first heard back in 1973.

Stranded

Stranded, the third long playing outing from Roxy Music, not only gave the band their first No. 1 album in the UK but was also the first to come to the wider attention of US audiences. An incredibly accomplished and consistent collection of songs, Stranded thrills from start to finish from the definitive album opener (and hit single) Street Life to the affecting ballad Just like You, the smouldering Song For Europe and the epic (and one of the all-time great Bryan Ferry compositions) Mother Of Pearl. From its Antony Price-styled sleeve in, Stranded is nothing short of a musical hothouse, brim-full of colour, drama and exotica.

Country Life

The first Roxy album to break the US Top 40 demonstrated that, four records in, the band were every bit as hungry, audacious and pioneering as on their debut two years earlier. Opening with the urgent, propulsive The Thrill Of It All, Country Life effortlessly embraces avant-garde song structures, touching ballads, English nostalgia, visceral hard rock, European influences and even medieval Christian references without skipping a beat. The resulting album is yet another immensely satisfying musical experience. Compared to their peers, its almost frightening what sounds Roxy Music could perfect and make their own.

Roxy Music Siren

Heels click on a pavement, an ignition key turns in a lock, a prowling bassline heralds the revving of an engine and as the stalking Love Is The Drug settles into its groove we are well and truly off. Opening with one of the all-time great dancefloor singles of any era, and containing a collection of songs described by Greil Marcus as perhaps the most perfectly crafted album of the decade the fifth Roxy Music album in three years showcased all of the bands fearless musical virtuosity to date and hitched it to an intense, rhythmic rock-based sound on dervishes like Whirlwind, Just Another High and yet another classic single the pulsating Both Ends Burning. Hell, who can sleep in this heat, this night? pleads Bryan Ferry as the latter reaches its shimmering climax, encapsulating Sirens overall atmosphere in a single phrase.