Clear Colour

Tracklist:

1. Big Things – Bryan Ferry, Amelia Barratt
2. Stand Near Me
3. Florist
4. Cowboy Hat
5. Demolition
6. Orchestra
7. Holiday
8. Landscape
9. Pictures On A Wall
10. White Noise
11. Loose Talk

Fifty-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 rooted in his past half-century of work.

A conversation between two artists, is how Amelia Barratt, one of the artists involved, describes Loose Talk. Something weve created together that neither could do on our own, adds Bryans Ferry, her interlocutor in the creative exchange. And, for me, it seems to have opened up a whole new chapter for my work.”