FERRY WELL

IF YOU WERE AROUND IN 1985, you’ll doubtless recall just how great Bryan Ferry’s Boys and Girls album sounded. His first release since the break up of Roxy Music, his first solo album since 1978’s The Bride Stripped Bare, Boys and Girls built effortlessly upon the same lush sonic pastures in which Roxy’s Avalon luxuriated, only more so.

In Spin Cycle’s mind, the album is inextricably linked with the mainstream birth of the CD, and there were few albums that offered a more convincing introduction to the new technology. Which means it’s both reassuring and gratifying to drop the needle onto its 2021 vinyl counterpart and discover it sounds just as good today as it ever did back then.

Six Ferry albums have reappeared this month, with joined by (1973), (1974), (1977) and (1978), plus 1976’s , a compilation of his non-LP U.K. B-sides