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Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure Gets Dolby Atmos, But Not in the Super Deluxe Box Set
Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure is getting the expansive reissue treatment on November 6, 2026, with expanded CDs, vinyl editions, demos, outtakes, BBC sessions, archival video and a substantial 116-page book.
There’s just one rather important omission.
The $131.76 U.S. Super Deluxe Edition includes three CDs and a DVD, but not the new Blu-ray Audio disc containing Dolby Atmos, two different 5.1 surround mixes, new stereo and a 192kHz/24-bit flat transfer of the original 1973 stereo mix.
For that, you’ll need to order the separately sold Blu-ray from the UK-based SDE shop for £29.99, plus applicable shipping.
Apparently “Super Deluxe” only gets you so far.
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Why For Your Pleasure?
Released in 1973, For Your Pleasure was Roxy Music’s second album and the final studio album featuring Brian Eno as a member of the band.
That also makes it unusually well suited to an immersive remix. Tracks such as “Do The Strand,” “Editions Of You,” “In Every Dream Home A Heartache” and the title track are loaded with guitars, synthesizers, saxophone, tape treatments and studio effects.
We haven’t heard the new mix yet, so declaring it definitive would be rather premature. But if you’re going to pull a classic Roxy Music album apart and rebuild it across an Atmos soundfield, this is a pretty good place to start.
The Blu-ray Is Where Things Get Interesting
Bob Clearmountain has created a new 48kHz/24-bit Dolby Atmos mix, along with new 5.1 and stereo mixes. Steven Wilson contributes a completely separate 96kHz/24-bit 5.1 mix.
That means surround listeners can actually compare two different interpretations of the same album rather than simply choosing between stereo and Atmos.
The disc also includes a 192kHz/24-bit flat transfer of the original 1973 stereo mix, so the original presentation hasn’t been tossed aside in favor of the new versions.
“Pyjamarama” receives Dolby Atmos, Clearmountain and Wilson 5.1 mixes, and stereo versions, while “The Pride And The Pain” is included in Wilson’s 5.1 mix and original stereo. More than an hour of studio outtakes and BBC material is also included in 48kHz/24-bit stereo.
For all of us, that is what makes this release different. This isn’t merely another remaster of an album many fans already own on LP or CD. It offers several genuinely different ways to hear the recording.
So What’s Missing From the Super Deluxe Box?
The Blu-ray.
The official Super Deluxe package gives you three CDs loaded with the original album, demos, rehearsals, studio outtakes, singles and live sessions. Its DVD adds television and concert performances from 1972 and 1973, including The Old Grey Whistle Test, Montreux and Musikladen. There’s also the 116-page book.
What you don’t get are the Dolby Atmos mix, either of the two 5.1 mixes, Clearmountain’s new stereo mix or the 192/24 transfer.
There’s no vinyl in the Super Deluxe box either; the LP editions are separate purchases.
So if you want everything, your credit card gets an encore.
Why You Might Actually Need the Blu-ray
If you already own For Your Pleasure, another conventional CD or vinyl edition may be difficult to justify.
The Blu-ray is a different proposition.
Two 5.1 mixes by Bob Clearmountain and Steven Wilson, lossless Dolby Atmos, a new stereo mix and a 192/24 transfer of the original stereo presentation make this something you can actually use to explore the recording rather than simply admire on a shelf.
The Atmos presentation is also encoded using Dolby TrueHD, providing the lossless Blu-ray implementation rather than the Dolby Digital Plus format generally used for Atmos music streaming.
At £29.99, the standalone Blu-ray may therefore be the most compelling part of the entire reissue campaign for listeners with a proper stereo, surround or Dolby Atmos system. U.S. buyers can order it from SDE, which ships internationally, but there is currently no separate official U.S. dollar list price.
There is another catch: it is a time-limited release, with preorders scheduled to close at midnight GMT on August 27, 2026.
Roxy Music fans have plenty to celebrate here. The strange part is that the disc audiophiles and home theater enthusiasts will probably want most is precisely the one missing from the $131.76 Super Deluxe Edition.
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