Bryan Ferry‘s new solo best-of compilation Retrospective has lots of classics collected from 50 years of releases, but it’s also got his first new original song in over a decade. “Star” is a collaboration with Scottish multidisciplinary artist and author Amelia Barratt as well as Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It’s dark and sinewy but also sleek and glamourous, and you can feel the hands of everyone who touched it. “Star” is terrific.
“A couple of years ago I helped [Amelia] record an audiobook here in my studio,’ Ferry says. “I was very impressed by her writing, and this is the first song we did together. I’m very excited about this new work – there’s a lot more to come.”
You can watch the “Star” video, which Ferry directed, below.
Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 is out October 25.