David Bowie

2002's Heathen was the best David Bowie album in ages, and this more guitar-oriented follow-up may even be better. Bowie once again ignores popular styles and instead chases a rather dark and mysterious muse. Crap faux manga album art hides a superior batch of originals and two choice covers, one by George Harrison and another by Jonathan Richman.

As a young subversive, David Bowie played with Sixties verities about gender, identity and
rock & roll itself, insisting that truth was nothing but another mask. Now fifty-six and a
revered figure himself, he's searching for some version of truth -- or, as this album title puts
it, Reality -- and it turns out he was right the first time. To his mixed dismay and amusement,
meaning comes and goes. "I still don't get the wherefores and the whys," he sing... More >