Bryan Ferry

The original retro/futurist romantic re-introduces his old art-rocker self to the suave slave-to-love he's been since the end of Roxy Music. Highlights include "I Thought," a midtempo sonic reunion with Brian Eno and two amazingly sincere Dylan covers. The rest of the album brims over with Ferry's specialty: neon-lit ennui.

Bryan Ferry wasn't the first guy to believe that nothing should exceed the grasp of rock
recording. But nobody ever made that conviction sing like he did on his albums with the
legendary Seventies London band Roxy Music. On Frantic, Ferry coaxes the work of Bob
Dylan, Marilyn Monroe, Leadbelly, Richard the Lionheart, Orson Welles, Alain Resnais and
others into one great, silvery song. The music, with players including Brian Eno... More >