This year marks the 40th anniversary release of one of the GOAT albums

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Siren is the fifth album by British rock band Roxy Music, released in 1975.

The album was ranked number 371 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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In the Rolling Stone review of the album, critic Simon Frith stated "Siren is the simplest album Roxy has put down. Ferry's imagery is focused — 'Jump up, bubble up – what's in store,/Love is the drug and I need to score' — and there's less synthesized clutter, fewer sound effects, more straight solo trading."

Melody Maker in a glowing review "It's a superb album, striking the listener immediately with a force and invention reserved only for the most special musical experiences. The overall sound, while never lacking the essential characteristics one associates with Roxy, is less dense and ornate than much of its predecessor. There's a crispness and vitality in Chris Thomas' production which is reminiscent of the sense of adventure and cavalier spirit which marked their early recordings, an impetuosity which has lately been absent from their work."

Greil Marcus included it in his appendix of Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island: "Don Juan Faces Life: With the band hitting the limits of the music that grew from Rubber Soul. Ferry dismantled his lounge lizard act bit by bit, until all that was left was what his entire career had meant to hide: "an average man," but one with enough emotion to record for Motown"

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