Roxy Music - Avalon

It starts with "More Than This", nowadays inseparable from Bill Murray and Lost in Translation, and in any event addictive. And it turns out that Avalon as a whole is really good, synths, sax, smoothness and all - colour me surprised, because normally this wouldn't be my kind of thing at all. At times it reminds me of the Cocteaus' amazing Victorialand, at others of ABC (less surprisingly); I find myself wanting to listen to it without knowing exactly why, or what it's giving me - which is perhaps how pop music should be.