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Mar 11, 2013The Next Day is a good latter-day Bowie record, worthy of at least a few listens, but since it's so evocative of his earlier, better work there's little reason not to put on Scary Monsters or Heroes instead.
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Mar 14, 2013Pop music is never a purely cerebral exercise, and despite its intriguing concept, The Next Day is woefully short on anything to sing along to.
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Mar 11, 2013Put quite simply The Next Day is dull.
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Mar 4, 2013The collision of rhetoric and intentions result in both colorless abstractions like piano ballad and first single "Where Are We Now," and grand melodrama like "You Feel So Lonely You Could Die."
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Mar 11, 2013A dense, angry, complex rock album.
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The WireApr 24, 2013The rest of the album makes the distance between now and (Berlin) then of "Where Are We Now?" painfully evident, a pain heightened by Visconti's failure to convert this collection of session muso workouts into anything memorable. [May 2013, p.55]
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 180 out of 209
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Mixed: 16 out of 209
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Negative: 13 out of 209
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