Product Description
Brand New ~ Sealed! Limited Edition 2LP Set On 180 Gram Vinyl. Gatefold Cover Includes Inner Sleeves. The Return Of David Bowie In 2013! Features “Where Are We Now?” “Valentine’s Day” & More!
Produced by long term collaborator Tony Visconti, ‘The Next Day’ was Bowie’s first album of new material in ten years! The album and haunting single, “Where Are We Now?” proved to be a hugely successful return of the Thin White Duke.
“The moment you know, you know you know…”
Side 1:
The Next Day
Dirty Boys
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Love Is Lost
Side 2:
Where Are We Now?
Valentine’s Day
If You Can See Me
I’d Rather Be High
Side 3:
Boss Of Me
Dancing Out In Space
How Does The Grass Grow?
(You Will) Set The World On Fire
Side 4:
You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
Heat
So She
Plan
I’ll Take You There
AMG –
Say this for David Bowie: he has a flair for drama. Bowie has been gone so long we all know what we've missed. And The Next Day is designed to remind us all of why we've missed him, containing hints of the Thin White Duke & Ziggy Stardust within what is largely an elegant, considered evocation of the Berlin Bowie so calculating it opens with a reworking of "Beauty & The Beast," and is housed in an artful desecration of the Heroes LP cover. Unlike his Berlin trilogy of the late '70s, The Next Day is rarely unsettling. Apart from the crawling closer "Heat" -- a quiet, shimmering, hallucination-channeling late-'70s Scott Walker -- the album has been systematically stripped of eeriness, trading discomfort for pleasure at every turn. And pleasure it does deliver, as nobody knows how to do classic Bowie like Bowie & Visconti, the two life-long collaborators sifting through their past, picking elements that relate to what Bowie is now. This persistent, well-manicured nostalgia could account for the startling warmth that exudes from The Next Day; even when a melody sighs with an air of resigned melancholia, as it does on "Where Are We Now?," it never delves into sadness, it stays afloat in a warm, soothing bath. That overwhelming familiarity is naturally quite appealing for anyone well-versed in Bowie lore. The Next Day neither enhances nor diminishes anything that came before, it's merely a sweet coda to a towering career.