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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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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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