Outside, an awkward art-rock LP made with Brian Eno, before he rode the Britpop bandwagon with 1997's Earthling, an action-packed mash-up of rock and clattering drum and bass that chimed with the buoyant musical mood of the times and still stands up remarkably well now. His old experimental streak resurfaced on 1.
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He made 1993's blissful Black Tie White Noise with Chic's Nile Rodgers and teamed up with Lenny Kravitz on the soundtrack to TV drama The Buddha Of Suburbia in the same year, kick-starting a resurgence that restored much of the gloss he'd lost in the 1980s.
The decade began with his 1992 marriage to Iman Abdulmajid and the scrapping of his ill-advised hard rock supergroup Tin Machine. The period covered here was far from Bowie's most fashionable - and this multi-disc box set feels intimidating - but there's plenty to enjoy once the intrepid listener starts digging.
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The return of the Thin White Duke is a sure sign that Christmas is coming and the latest chapter in an ongoing series of deluxe Bowie reissues focuses on the studio albums he made in the 1990s.
From rock legends to Britpop heroes, the Mail's music critic ADRIAN THRILLS selects four of this year's best offerings.ĭAVID BOWIE: Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) (Parlophone) The deluxe edition of Solar Power is set to come out on Friday (November 5).With the festive season around the corner, box sets and deluxe albums make great gift ideas. ‘ Acting my age, not my horoscope / guess that’s growing up.’” I came to the conclusion that when it comes to holding grudges, I am just not that b***h. When this happens to me, I find myself hyper-aware of the space where the closeness used to be, my tongue finding it over and over like the socket of a lost tooth. “Every couple lines, the person I’m singing about changes one minute it’s a childhood friend, next a crush or a colleague. “’Hold No Grudge’ is a sort of composite portrait of when relationships turn sour, being trapped in the ice but remembering the warmth,” the singer added. “It’s super off the cuff lyrically, almost ad-libbed, and you can hear me starting to figure out some album themes - ‘ So I took a happy face, and it’s coming on like a charm / I don’t wanna get lost, I wanna worship the sun / and if you want, you can come.'” We wrote it super quickly in the tiniest room at Westlake where we did a bunch of ( Melodrama) and it was fun the whole time," she continued. “’Helen Of Troy’ is just me talking trash to make Jack laugh, basically. “They didn’t quite fit into the tracklist for whatever reason but they’re both big tunes.” “These songs were fun explorations on the album journey,” Lorde wrote in a newsletter to fans. Now, the New Zealand native is prepping a deluxe version of Solar Power that includes two "big tunes" that were the "black sheep" of the recording session. In September, she surprised fans with the Te Ao Mārama EP, which saw her sing a selection of songs off the record in Māori.
Lorde may have released her latest album Solar Power more than two months ago, but that doesn't mean she's done releasing new music.