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Nov 16, 2010Despite a few tripped-out pop gems, the album is largely what you'd expect to hear after gazing into Moss's glassy eyes: a classic sound but not a classic record.
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MojoNov 2, 2010Slick but foxy music from under pop music's best-maintained fringe. [Nov. 2010, p. 109]
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Oct 26, 2010Ferry manages to maintain the balance between strut and elegance without pushing into manic depictions of either form. This doesn't mean everything works so neatly....Guest spots from Eno, David Gilmour, Groove Armada, and Jonny Greenwood disappear entirely into the thick production, which robs them of any distinctive contribution.
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Oct 25, 2010You feel the need for something other than Bryan's croon, and it isn't there.
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UncutOct 25, 2010Olympia could do with a little more of that future-facing yearning, the contemporary spirit that crackled through the remixes, to remind us of times when Ferry seemed as much a figure from our future as from our recent past. [Nov 2010, p.85]
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Oct 22, 2010Olympia is only the Roxy Music singer's second set of new material since 1994. However, he's busily assembled an all-star supporting cast – guitarists Nile Rodgers, Jonny Greenwood and Dave Gilmour, Mani and Flea on bass, and most of Roxy, including Brian Eno.
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Jan 3, 2011Ferry sounds like he's singing on a cruise ship.
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Oct 21, 2010The fact of the matter is that Bryan Ferry has produced another album of inessential middle-of-the-road cosmopolitan adult-pop. The only difference is that this time they are his own songs.
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