Track Listing
1. It's All Over Now Baby Blue
2. Cruel
3. Goin Down
4. Goddess of Love
5. Don't Think Twice It's Alright
6. Nobody Loves Me
7. Ja Nun Hons Pris
8. Fool For Love, A
9. Goodnight Irene
10. Hiroshima
11. San Simeon
12. One Way Love
13. I Thought
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Brian Eno, Chris Spedding | | Distributor: | Phantom Import Distributi | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Bryan Ferry (vocals, harmonica, keyboards); David Williams (guitar, bass); Dave Stewart, Chris Spedding, Adam Lamprell (guitar); Lucy Wilkins, Natalia Bonner, Lucy Theo, Rosie Wetters (strings); Keith Thompson (recorder, crumhorn, curtal); Colin Good (piano, virginal); Brian Eno (keyboards, background vocals); Paul Taylor, Terry Disley (keyboards); Zev Katz (bass); Paul Thompson, Andy Newmark, Bobby Irwin (drums); Sarah Brown, Audrey Wheeler, Stevie De Granville, Nicole Blumberg (background vocals).
Producers include: Rhett Davies, Bryan Ferry, Colin Good, Robin Trower, Dave Stewart.
Recorded at RAK Studios and Studio One, London, England.
German-edition Super Audio CD playable on SACD and regular CD players.
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Fresh off the 2001 Roxy Music reunion tour, lounge lizard extraordinaire Bryan Ferry offers his eleventh solo outing, the guitar-driven FRANTIC. Aiding Ferry on this surprisingly lively, not un-Roxy-sounding outing is an impressive array of sideman including English guitar hero Chris Spedding, former bandmate Brian Eno, Eurythmic Dave Stewart, and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. Helmed by AVALON producer Rhett Davies, this rich-sounding disc benefits from Ferry's penchant for unconventional covers. These range from a pair of stellar Dylan ventures (the rollicking "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and the piano-driven "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right") to a Leadbelly classic featuring accompaniment by Cajun musicians ("Goodnight Irene").
Equally impressive are Ferry originalsm including his swirling tribute to Marilyn Monroe ("Goddess of Love"), an ethereal tale of romantic woe ("Fool For Love"), and a touch of futurism influenced by French cinema and packed with swooshing synths and airy female vocals ("Hiroshima"). Most exciting is "I Thought," a laid-back Eno/Ferry collaboration that uses a lush bed of keyboards and casually strummed guitar to steadily build up into a righteous closing cut.
Editorial Reviews
...Sleek and focused...
CMJ (05/27/2002)
Any fan of Ferry's Roxy work will find FRANTIC music to their ears... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (05/31/2002)
...It'll remind regular listeners of his old measured-but-passionate incarnation....a similar mix of moody originals and lovingly mutated covers, and sharing THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE album's willfully dry, nicely bruised humility...
Mojo (05/01/2002)
3.5 out of 5 stars - ...On FRANTIC, Ferry coaxes the work of Bob Dylan, Marilyn Monroe, Leadbelly, Richard the Lionheart, Orson Welles, Alain Resnais and others into one great, silvery song...
Rolling Stone (05/23/2002)
Ranked #37 in Uncut's 100 Best Albums of the Year - ...His most lively, inventive solo set in a decade...
Uncut (01/01/2003)
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