Bryan Ferry has returned with his first solo composition in a decade. The new song, ‘Star’, began “as a sketch by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross,” according to a press release. Ferry completed it with guest vocalist Amelia Barratt. It arrives with a music video co-directed by Ferry and James Garzke and starring Barratt, which you can check out below.
“A couple of years ago I helped her record an audiobook here in my studio,” Ferry said of the collaboration with Barratt in a statement. “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.”
‘Star’ marks Ferry’s first original music since the release of his album Avonmore in 2014. It’s set to appear on the Roxy Music frontman’s upcoming compilation Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023, which is out October 5 and covers the past five decades of his solo career. The box set was announced with a cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘She Belongs To Me’.