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Oct 27, 2010Finding true love has never come easy to Ferry, but his famed warble still revels in elusive, discofied romance.
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Dec 16, 2010Olympia doesn't feel fussy; it's unruffled and casually elegant, its pleasing familiarity reflecting the persistence of an old master honing his craft.
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Q MagazineNov 5, 2010It seems that Ferry's singular blend of elegance and dissolution still hasn't gone out of style. [Dec. 2010, p. 111]
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Oct 26, 2010Luckily, the songs are more often grand than boring.
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Oct 25, 2010The former Roxy Music frontman doesn't disappoint on his 13th solo album, a mesmerizing swirl of pulsating guitars, whooshing keys, and lite-funk undertones.
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Oct 21, 2010Olympia is a rich, soulful immersive album; and a terrific return to songwriting form.
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Oct 27, 2010It's a good album, and without the pressure of making it under the Roxy Music name, Ferry has made a confident and remarkably fresh-sounding record simply by doing what he's done best for over three decades.
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Oct 26, 2010Those hoping Eno's appearance would revive the art-rock experimentation of Ferry's early days will be disappointed.
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Oct 21, 2010It's luxurious as all get-out, and yet vaguely disturbing – this is mood music designed to unsettle as much as soothe.
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Oct 21, 2010Ferry is as cool and debonair as ever on his first collection of new material in eight years.
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Oct 22, 2010There's glitchy-synth and askew beats through which a craggy Ferry tests an array of vocal tricks for maximum theatricality.
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Under The RadarNov 4, 2010Remarkably, Olympia is an album that Bryan Ferry could easily have released 25 years ago. [Fall 2010, p.60]
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Oct 26, 2010At 65, former Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry is still the smoothest art-rocker ever.
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Oct 25, 2010The Godfather of cool retains his title!
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Oct 21, 2010Yet the cameo-packed Olympia shares far more with Ferry's recent solo stuff than it does with Roxy's early-'70s art rock; lusciously arranged lounge-funk workouts.
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Oct 21, 2010Ferry can only do jaded and glum nowadays – but when it works, he blissfully drags you under with him.
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Nov 1, 2010Too many songs fail to equal the quality of the guest list, meaning the substance of Olympia never quite matches its undoubted style.
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