Suffering at the highest level

A long time ago I had already a recording of this disc. The title "Windswept has since never left me out of the head. Brian Ferry does not represent the big Draught, but rather for the Bohème among pop stars, always surrounded by class women and with this certain seducer Image. The fact that he is a very special singer is often worn over some musical platitudes since the days Roxy Music's.
On Boys & Girls it comes however from the outset profoundly melancholic to - Ferry's father had died shortly before this recording. And so the transience is also such a thing as the basic theme that permeates the songs.

The board is very dense and durcharrangiert, and it is remarkable how succeeds Ferry to insinuate guest musicians of the caliber of David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, David Sanborn or Markus Miller, his sophisticated sound dictation. Every instrument has a clear function in the sound and rhythm braid, and that makes this CD a real listening pleasure, in which even after frequent listening repeatedly open up fascinating details.

Certainly there are also at Ferry probably inevitable hits like "Slave to Love" or Do not stop the dance, "but even these are pervaded by a gloomy mood. The highlight is for me but still" Windswept ", a able to open the emotional floodgates song. Good to have this little gem again.