Bitter-Sweet (Bryan Ferry album)
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| Bitter-Sweet | ||||
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| Released | 30 November 2018 | |||
| Studio | Studio One (London) | |||
| Length | 42:48 | |||
| Label | BMG Rights Management | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Clash | 8/10[2] |
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Bitter-Sweet is the sixteenth studio album by the English singer Bryan Ferry, officially under the name of Bryan Ferry and His Orchestra.[4] It was released on 30 November 2018 by BMG Rights Management.
The album contains remakes of older songs by Ferry and Roxy Music, all arranged in a jazz style reminiscent of 1930s Berlin. Approximately half the songs feature Ferry as a vocalist; the other songs are instrumentals.
The album came up after Ferry's participation on the German TV series Babylon Berlin; six of the songs on this album were released on the Babylon Berlin soundtrack.[5][6] This album is similar to, but not quite in the same style as, Ferry's 2012 album The Jazz Age. That album was completely instrumental and was more directly an homage to the American 1920s jazz tradition, rather than the German re-interpretation of that tradition. A version of "Reason Or Rhyme" appears on both albums; they are notably different in arrangements.
As shown in the album credits, Ferry dedicated Bitter-Sweet to his friend Jeremy Catto, who had died that year.
