The two hundred and eighty-third album: #283 Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
With For Your Pleasure I'm taking on some glam rock today that feels appropriately cheeky and self aware. Do the Strand feels like it sets that up appropriately, referring to a dance craze that never gets described and in its lyrics making a mockery of the older, just as commercialized rock.
While the energy of that track doesn't transfer to all tracks, the music's production sits at the right point of big without over the top, well produced but knowing when to pull back. The album goes big, but it works in the size of the tracks, the way it plays with music, but never lets the tricks overwhelm the music or the band. Instead it hits the right balance to stay entertaining and engaging while still getting its message across.