More Than This: The Best Of Bryan Ferry And Roxy Music
The selection of tracks for this single-disc retrospective works on the premise that Roxy Music group records and frontman Bryan Ferry's solo efforts were pretty much of a whole. As the distance grew from the time founding memberBrian Enoleft the fold, thatwasmore and more the case. (Eno quit Roxy with the release of the band's second album, 1973'sFor Your Pleasure; about the same time, Ferry put out his first spin-off collection,These Foolish Things.) Commonly dubbed art-rockers (in large part because their flirtations with glam, prog, and something approximating mood music for moderns made them tough to categorize more specifically), Roxy's music has aged far better than that of most of their '70s contemporaries, thanks to inventive playing and Ferry's elegant persona and graceful vocals. Granted, this isn't the thorough retelling of the Roxy/Ferry chronicles that devotees long for, but it's a fine primer for more casual Rox fans.--Steven Stolder