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- Record Label: Dene Jesmond Records
- Release Date: Mar 28, 2025
- Summary: The debut full-length collaborative release from Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt is his first studio release of new music since 2014's Avonmore.
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- Record Label: Dene Jesmond Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mar 31, 2025Barratt’s texts are striking enough that the listener doesn’t long for an instrumental version; Ferry’s approach is intriguing and impressively original. It’s a diversion, but one that transforms his past into something fresh.
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Record CollectorApr 17, 2025Loose Talk is a tightly crafted exploration of live unmoored. [May 2025, p.104]
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Mar 31, 2025This is an intriguing piece of work that has a strange allure, asking more questions than it answers – in a good way. It is satisfying to witness a new dimension to Bryan Ferry’s artistry, an ability to use old canvases to create new paintings with the help of Barratt’s evocative prose.
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UncutMar 31, 2025It's a strikingly bold venture, and a refreshing take on the Roxy soundworld. [Apr 2025, p.29]
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Classic Rock MagazineApr 2, 2025The result is varied, strange and engaging. [May 2025, p.75]
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The WireApr 9, 2025Loose Talk is an engaging listen. [May 2025, p.52]
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Mar 31, 2025Barratt’s plummy texts present fragmentary narratives aquiver with unresolved tension and hyperreal detail. Her compadre is talking them up as In Every Dream Home A Heartache rebooted, but Loose Talk is surely but an intriguing distraction compared to that pop-cultural landmark. [Apr 2025, p.79]