Release – Bryan Ferry has unveiled the new EP, I Thought, a 7-track album of covers, original songs and brand-new music. The new EP teases the release of his upcoming Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 box set, which comes out Oct. 25.
Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 celebrates more than five decades of Ferry’s musical career.
I Thought brings Ferry together with Roxy Music bandmate Brian Eno, as featured on 2002’s Frantic album and showcases Ferry’s exploration of love’s complexities.
Five decades ago, the Roxy Music phenomenon exploded in a technicolor flash of pop, high art, outré fashion, and glamour, asserting band leader Ferry as one of the most vital and exciting songwriters in British music. During this ultra-prolific period, in 1973, Ferry launched his solo career in parallel to Roxy Music. His first release, an audacious remodeling of Bob Dylan’s apocalyptic 1962 anthem “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” signaled the dawn of Ferry’s status as one of the great modern interpreters of song, in tandem with his own peerless songwriting and composition.
Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 brings together, for the first time, Ferry’s classic recorded output with Island Records, Polydor, Virgin, E.G. Records and BMG, and features two brand new recordings.
The album will be released in multiple formats including a 5-CD deluxe box set featuring 81 songs, accompanied by a 100-page hardback book containing extensive new liner notes, rare and unseen photographs and imagery. A 2-LP gatefold edition presents The Best Of Bryan Ferry, containing 20 songs pressed to black vinyl with variants including a green/blue vinyl pressing and a clear vinyl pressing. A 1-CD version will also feature the same 20 songs and a booklet containing liner notes and photographs. The 81-track edition of the album will be released digitally.
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