Bryan Ferry hooks up with Nine Inch Nails for his first original song in more than a decade
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Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry has released his first original song in more than a decade, and it's been made with the help of some unlikely collaborators. Star was originally sketched out by Nine Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – who also perform on the track – and finds Ferry sharing a mic with Amelia Barrett, a Glasow-based performer.
“Star is a collaboration with the painter and writer Amelia Barratt," says Ferry. "A couple of years ago I helped her record an audiobook here in my studio. I was very impressed by her writing, and this is the first song we did together. I’m very excited about this new work - there’s a lot more to come."
The result is what Ferry's representatives here on Earth describe as "an anxious, darkly gleaming slab of pounding post-techno", with Ferry's whispered vocal barely audible but still undeniably Ferry-esque. Watch the official video here.
Star comes from the upcoming Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023, an 81-track set that'll be released via BMG Records on October 25. The collection is the first to cover Ferry's time with Island Records, Polydor, Virgin, E.G. Records and BMG, and will be released as a 5CD package accompanied by a 100-page hardback book. An abridged edition, on double vinyl and single CD, will be released as The Best Of Bryan Ferry.
(Source: www.loudersound.com)
