{"id":1688,"date":"2011-03-16T23:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T06:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:09:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T06:09:39","slug":"bryan-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/bryan-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"BRYAN FERRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BRYAN-FERRY-M-Review-November2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1689\" title=\"BRYAN-FERRY-M-Review-November2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BRYAN-FERRY-M-Review-November2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BRYAN-FERRY-M-Review-November2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BRYAN-FERRY-M-Review-November2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>B<\/strong><strong>RYAN FERRY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Olympia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Astralwerks]<\/p>\n<p>The guest list for Bryan Ferry\u2019s first batch of (mostly) original material in eight years is star-studded to the point of practically begging for attention. There\u2019s Chic\u2019s Nile Rodgers, Pink Floyd\u2019s David Gilmour, Radiohead\u2019s Jonny Greenwood\u2014and those are just the guitarists. But if you don\u2019t have the liner notes handy, the sidemen won\u2019t matter, and your mind will stay focused on a single thought: This is one super-suave dude. That\u2019s not news, of course, but <em>Olympia<\/em> highlights the ridiculously unfair versatility of that smoothness. This is a guy who could be the hippest man in a VIP club where the drug of choice is too cutting-edge to have earned a nickname yet. And if the ladies prefer the sensitive type over an R-rated creature of the night, the protagonist of <em>Olympia <\/em>can just as easily play the lonely puppy dog or the compassionate, open-armed protector of lost souls. \u2013David Styburski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRYAN FERRY Olympia [Astralwerks] The guest list for Bryan Ferry\u2019s first batch of (mostly) original material in eight years is star-studded to the point of practically begging for attention. There\u2019s Chic\u2019s Nile Rodgers, Pink Floyd\u2019s David Gilmour, Radiohead\u2019s Jonny Greenwood\u2014and those are just the guitarists. But if you don\u2019t have the liner notes handy, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,187,1181,1184,1187,1183,1175,1182,1185,1186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}