Previously unreleased due to label wrangles, and part of the Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) huge boxset, this set of revisited 60s songs recorded in 2000, offers fine evidence of Bowie joyfully reworking his past a late-90s swagger. This is particularly apparent on London Boys and Silly Boy Blue, given a whole new flavour, but the highlight is perhaps the beautiful rippling piano-based Shadow Man, a beautiful number taken from the Ziggy era in which Bowie’s voice soars with emotion, and Conversation Piece, previously the B-side of Space Oddity, is given a new lease of life in the album’s recording sessions that includes longtime friends Earl Slick, Gail Ann Dorsey, Mark Plati and Tony Visconti. Overall an enjoyable, interesting curiosity that doesn’t match the sheer quality fo his final two albums, and has much more the flavour of 90s/00s Bowie, but is filled with energy and a sense of happiness, from the eternally optimistic and lightly humorous I Dig Everything, You’ve Got A Habit of Leaving, to a rock-out Can’t Help Thinking About Me. Out on Jones/ Tintoretto Entertainment/ Parlophone.
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