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Bryan Ferry - Avonmore
Release Date: 2014
Label: BMG Rights
Format: MP3 320 kbps
Time: 43:17
Size: 101 MB
The simple question is: why? Did he stick with the glitzy, mirrorball-kissed pop so as to insure a healthy commercial return in an already stretched-thin market or was this out of habit? Because goodness knows, Avonmore could have gone in any direction Ferry wanted to, aided by at least two-dozen producers or arrangers who would kill to work with such an icon. As it stands, we get only a small taste of that delicious possibility.
For the rest of Avonmore, Ferry slips back into his familiar patterns as surely and comfortably as a bespoke suit. The lite disco and Euro R&B swims and shimmies behind him as if the sultry, synchronized movements of a trio of curvy female backup singers were made audible. Over it all, Ferry oozes his aging, but still effective vibrato-heavy voice, expressing romantic regret, sexual longing and the kind of smooth come-ons that a man his age should really have outgrown.
*Robert Ham
Tracklist:
01 Loop De Li
02 Midnight Train
03 Soldier Of fortune
04 Driving Me wild
05 A Special Kind Of Guy
06 Avonmore
07 Lost
08 One Night Stand
09 Send In The Clowns
10 Johnny And Mary
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