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- Summary: In the works for over two years with producer Tony Visconti, this is the first new studio release from David Bowie in ten years.
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- Record Label: Sony Music Entertainment
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 44
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Mixed: 6 out of 44
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Negative: 0 out of 44
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Q MagazineMar 11, 2013The Next Day is a loud, thrilling, steamrollingly confident rock and roll album full of noise, energy, and words that--if as cryptic as ever they were--sound like they desperately need to be sung. [Apr 2013, p.92]
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Feb 25, 2013It is an enormous pleasure to report that the new David Bowie album is an absolute wonder: urgent, sharp-edged, bold, beautiful and baffling, an intellectually stimulating, emotionally charged, musically jagged, electric bolt through his own mythos and the mixed-up, celebrity-obsessed, war-torn world of the 21st century.
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Mar 11, 2013It’s his most consistent and rewarding work since “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps” in 1980.
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Feb 25, 2013An album that's thought-provoking, strange and filled with great songs.
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Mar 11, 2013The Next Day offers many sides of a multifaceted artist and almost all of them mesmerizing, as the songs grow richer with each listen.
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Mar 4, 2013It demands that you listen to it in this moment, not that you give it an easy ride because this is the man who made ‘Heroes’; and its songs more than live up to the demand.
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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]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 39
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Mixed: 5 out of 39
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Negative: 5 out of 39
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