Bryan Ferry unveils the I Thought EP, a collection of covers, original compositions and brand-new music, ahead of the highly anticipated Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 box set release (on October 25th) – a new collection celebrating over five decades of Ferry’s groundbreaking musical career. Listen here.
‘I Thought’, a beguiling and resonant collaboration with former Roxy Music band mate Brian Eno, as featured on 2002’s Frantic album, showcases Ferry’s exploration of love’s complexities. With a lightness of touch that transports listeners into an ethereal soundscape, the song is part of the overarching theme on Disc Two of the upcoming 5CD Retrospective box set, which focuses on Ferry’s evolution as a composer from 1977 to the present day.
The 81 tracks that make up Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 illustrate an adventure in music like no other. A story in songwriting that has been unfolding for more than 50 years will now be celebrated in this kaleidoscopic compendium of music from Bryan Ferry. The release is a celebration of the performer who has carved out a place as a master modern interpreter of song via a dizzyingly inventive series of cover versions that range from Bob Dylan to Amy Winehouse, Rodgers and Hart to the Velvet Underground via Tim Buckley, Shakespeare, sea shanties and Sam and Dave.
Then there’s the songwriter who, in singles like 1985’s ‘Slave To Love,’ has crafted music that stands amongst the defining recordings of their era, yet sound unique and timeless to this day. There’s the futurist conjuring vortices of electronica; or the passionate revivalist, presenting songs and styles from the 1920s and 1930s as if they were the hot sound of tomorrow calling. There’s the figure out on the pulsing nightclub dancefloor, tripping the light fantastic; and the guy who wants only to be alone, slipping away into brooding, bittersweet backstreets where everything turns neon and noir.
Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 is available to pre-order here.
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