by
David Bowie
- Record Label: Parlophone
- Release Date: Sep 29, 2017
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Jan 3, 2018Fans have long complained that the original version [of Lodger] is thin-sounding and so this is the response. Equipped with louder bass, cleaner-sounding and quieter, it's a nice variation on an old favorite, albeit one perhaps underrated given the tremendous albums it's surrounded by. By putting Lodger into focus, it gives it the attention it has always deserved. Plus, a remaster of the original mix is included on its own disc and it sounds great. In addition, there are two different double-disc versions of the 1978 live album Stage.
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UncutOct 17, 2017Bowie’s Berlin is more about a state of mind, a population and its thinking than an actual place. Brian Eno and his intellectual playfulness; Robert Fripp’s alien guitar; Tony Visconti’s embrace of meaningful technology. Between them they gave Bowie the materials to build a city larger and more magnificent than anywhere you could hope to find on a map. [Nov 2017, p.44]
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MagnetOct 17, 2017The trilogy's scarred, scary travelogue defines '70s Berlin as much as it does Bowie in uncompromising recovery mode. ... Brilliant. [No. 147, p.52]
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Oct 2, 2017Even now, more than four decades after being recorded, it still catches your ear as one of the most wholly original sounds in pop music.
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Oct 2, 2017The only thing A New Career in a New Town is missing, at least for the diehard fans who would buy a lavish box set like this, is more of everything – more rarities, more photos, more stories. But that's also precisely why this period in Bowie's career remains captivating. There's enough curious music here to last several lifetimes.
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Oct 2, 2017This is a master class on how to create a re-issue that covers and expands upon essential and ultimately timeless music made by one of rock’s true icons. It’s the final word on arguably Bowie’s most experimental years and an important historical document presented with boldness, integrity and dignity, all elements reflected in the artist’s work and ever evolving art.
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Oct 2, 2017All the albums, and the odds-and-sods presented on this 11-CD collection are remastered, but only Lodger, in a move approved by Bowie before his death, is given a Tony Visconti 2017 remix. This new mix illuminates the giddy mood of experimentalism abroad, a contrast to the intensity of its precursor’s, and a band fresh from the tour captured on the exemplary Stage (also here), in fine, resourceful fettle.
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Oct 2, 2017It's hard to say if it's enough to warrant a purchase of this hefty box, but in either its CD or LP incarnation, A New Career in a New Town is a handsome, alluring, and exceptional-sounding reissue that earns its price tag.
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Dec 7, 2017For the fair-weather Bowie fan, his Berlin years are probably the least favorite next to Tin Machine, but to the rabid appreciator, this time frame is arguably one of his best.
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Positive: 19 out of 23
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Negative: 4 out of 23
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