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Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Record Collector
    Apr 17, 2025
    80
    Loose Talk is a tightly crafted exploration of live unmoored. [May 2025, p.104]
  2. Classic Rock Magazine
    Apr 2, 2025
    80
    The result is varied, strange and engaging. [May 2025, p.75]
  3. Uncut
    Mar 31, 2025
    80
    It's a strikingly bold venture, and a refreshing take on the Roxy soundworld. [Apr 2025, p.29]
  4. Mar 31, 2025
    80
    This 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.
  5. Mar 31, 2025
    80
    Barratt’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.
  6. The Wire
    Apr 9, 2025
    70
    Loose Talk is an engaging listen. [May 2025, p.52]
  7. Mar 31, 2025
    60
    Barratt’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]

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