Bryan Ferry - Loose Talk [LP] HardyPaw As Bob Stanley said about

As Bob Stanley said about the shimmering ballad "Please Rain Fall" while bestowing it with NME Single Of The Week (an honor also bestowed upon "Pristine Christine")

Dream Destroyer

but reindeer to be tended and coal to be mined (sadly

pays tribute to Jackie Shane

or seek new horizons across a dimensional rift

Bryan Ferry - Loose Talk [LP] HardyPaw As Bob Stanley said aboutFifty three years since he delivered the bolt from the blue of Roxy Musics debut LP as his calling card, Ferrys latest project is just as startlingly unexpected an arrival. On the one hand, Loose Talk is his first album of new music since 2014s Avonmore. On the other, little here, from the sounds and shapes of that music, to the uses it gets put to, resembles any previous Bryan Ferry album. Then again on the third hand its also a piece that is deeply