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And if you are among those who have joined the enthusiasm for "Where are we now? 'A little' fear for the fragility trumpeted, for the melancholy that seemed to confirm the rumors about the precarious health of Bowie ... Well, get ready to change your mind.
"The next day" is an album by the rock solid heart with many, many facets. "Where are we now?" Is the best song of the album - strange choice for a single return after nearly 10 years. Rather think of "The stars (are out tonight)."
A solid core of rock songs, straight but never banal: "The next day", "Valentine's Day", "Boss of Me" and "You Will Set the world on fire" over all, with a lot of work on the guitars (feels the hand of Tony Visconti, producer of trust), which refers to the electric Bowie. And then songs that vary on the pop by adding elements such as wind (the blues waitsiano of "Dirty Boys"), organ ("Love Is Lost"), arcs ("Heat"). Or echo other phases of his career - the rhythms of "If you can see me" that remember the period drum 'n' bass of "Earthling", the psychedelic pop of "I'd rather be high," the pop genetically modified " "How does the grass grow." The ballads are in the minority: "You feel so lonely you could die" and the closing and gloomy "Heat".
Amid references also ironic and not too veiled to his absence and rumors about his illness, hidden inside stories in which Bowie apparently is not speaking of himself: "Here I am, not quite dying," says the chorus at the opening of "The next day. " "Wave goodbye to life without pain," he says, "Love is lost" album in half, closing with "And I tell myself I do not know who I am" to "Heat".
Bowie actually knows who he is, and "The next day" proves it to perfection. Is not to "Heroes", and the cover reminds us, with that game chart (please continue on the back, where the back of the historic album is deleted by another white square). But it is an artist who is conscious of his past, he has no fear and knows how to look forward too. Still knows how to write great songs (the signature on the songs is always his, but two co-signed with Gerry Leonard and one with Jerry Lonard). Knows how to surround himself with the right people (as well as Visconti, the disc was recorded with Gail Ann Dorsey, Tony Levin, Zack Alford, all in the past with him).
Above all, Bowie is an artist who knows how to find the right sound, never assume, always with the paw of originality that is in every song on the album and how there's almost always been in his career. But it is not a fatal blow that kills the song never looking for special effects, but is at his service.
"The next day" is the result of what may become known as the "Bowie Care" for an artist. Disappear from the scene. Give the impression of having withdrawn, regenerating and finding inspiration. Return with an album that sums up his career and brings it all home. Congliatissima care for many artists and iperprofolifici ipoqualitativi. Bowie worked with, and how if it worked. The album's most anticipated, and the wait will not disappoint.
