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May 28, 2021While this album encompasses only a fraction of the total trajectory, it’s a fascinating glimpse at his his seminal sound. In that regard, The Width of a Circle is expansive indeed.
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Jun 1, 2021Bowie would create far more legendary music on “Hunky Dory” just a few months after the last track here was recorded (he would also record much more fully realized versions of “The Prettiest Star” and “Holy Holy” in the next couple of years). But for fans, “The Width of a Circle” presents a fascinating listen, and look, at how he got there.
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MojoJul 2, 2021Bowie's live vocal is excellent on a cover of Jacques Brel's Amsterdam, and the sound is seriously beefed up by the addition of Tony Visconti and Mick Ronson partway through the set, but massively new or consistently brilliant it is not. [Aug 2021, p.98]
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Jun 18, 2021The signs were all there, even though Bowie briefly ignored them as he recorded the landmark Hunky Dory. But as The Width Of A Circle shows, everything he’d put in place would soon come around.
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Classic Rock MagazineMay 28, 2021The Width Of A Circle displays brilliantly, he's not so much planning his next move as constantly shape-shifting. [Jul 2021, p.92]
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Jun 4, 2021The Width of a Circle offers a rare peek at how his work was developing—an often ungainly evolution that listeners can now track chronologically. Whether they’d care to is the question.
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May 28, 2021As a whole, The Width of a Circle doesn't quite add up to much more than an odds-and-sods collection, but then again, that's its appeal. It allows listeners to live within Bowie's 1970, a strange, weird, and absorbing year when he was figuring out his strengths and weaknesses.
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UncutMay 28, 2021Not all essential but a generally rich and respectable package. [Jul 2021, p.43]