Toy David Bowie 's "lost" album that was never officially released, arrived on digital platforms this Friday, the 26th. Listen now.
The album was recorded by the singer in 2001. Bowie intended to reimagine some of his early tracks with a full band and release the album as a surprise, but his record label at the time, EMI , vetoed his plans. Some of the tracks that were originally intended for Toy ended up on the 2002 album Heathen , made with Columbia .
“ Toy is like a moment in time captured in an amber of joy, fire and energy,” says producer Mark Plati in a statement. “It’s the sound of people who are happy to be making music.”
“David revisited and re-examined his decades-long work through the prisms of experience and a new perspective – a parallel I don’t forget when revisiting it now, twenty years later,” Plati continues. “From time to time, he used to say, ‘Mark, this is our album.’ I think because he knew I was entirely with him on that journey. I’m happy to finally be able to say that now the album belongs to all of us.”
Toy arrives as part of a special David Bowie career collection called Brilliant Adventure , which maps the singer's work from 1992 to 2001.
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