David Bowie’s 2001 album Toy will finally be released on Nov. 26. The album was recorded in 2000 live in the studio after Bowie’s performance at Glastonbury Festival and set for an immediate release, however, it was shelved and rumors of discontent between the late icon and EMI/Virgin surfaced.
The album was created with the help of co-producer Mark Plati, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Sterling Campbell, Holly Palmer, Emm Gryner, Lisa Germano, Gerry Leonard, Cuong Vu, and more. It features songs both new, old and reimagined.
Mark Plati said of the album, “Toy is like a moment in time captured in an amber of joy, fire and energy. It’s the sound of people happy to be playing music. David revisited and re-examined his work from decades prior through prisms of experience and fresh perspective — a parallel not lost on me as I now revisit it twenty years later. From time to time, he used to say “Mark, this is our album” — I think because he knew I was so deeply in the trenches with him on that journey. I’m happy to finally be able to say it now belongs to all of us.”
Toy will be released on the same day as David Bowie 5: Brilliant Adventure which will also feature remasters of The Buddha of Suburbia, Black Tie White Noise, Outside, Earthling, Hours, and a live album recorded at BBC Radio Theatre in 2000.
Watch the video for “You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving” off Toy below:
Toy:
01 I Dig Everything
02 You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving
03 The London Boys
04 Karma Man
05 Conversation Piece
06 Shadow Man
07 Let Me Sleep Beside You
08 Hole in the Ground
09 Baby Loves That Way
10 Can’t Help Thinking About Me
11 Silly Boy Blue
12 Toy (Your Turn to Drive)
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André Godin
October 1, 2021 at 10:36 amThis isn’t Toy as originally conceived. They dropped some tracks including the two songs that overlap with Heathen. It’s going to make for a much weaker album if you remove what Bowie thought were the most worth salvaging and since the Heathen versions were re-recordings, it’s not like the tracks would have been redundant.
Loose Lucy
September 29, 2021 at 9:53 pmThis is a gem!