Bryan Ferry, Amelia Barratt, ‘Cowboy Hat’

A strangely beautiful collaboration from the dashing Roxy Music glam-rock legend and the writer/painter Amelia Barratt, inspiring the Divine Bryan to finish his first album in a decade. On Loose Talk, she recites spoken-word vignettes over his music — some of it new, some from demos going back to the Seventies. She visits a tailor in “Cowboy Hat,” over his eerie piano and wordless crooning, as the music travels across the decades and the smoke gets in his eyes.