Brilliant Adventure (1992 – 2001)

This box set of Bowie’s work in the 1990s—a period when he reasserted his role as the godfather of alternative music—houses the lost album Toy and makes a case for a bold, divisive era of experiments.

If Blackstar was the period, then the 2021 release of Bowie's famous "lost album," 2000's 'Toy,' is a kind of footnote.

The spangly-jangly guitars of his youth are exchanged for the tougher, metallic sound of the new millennium. His richly self-aware vocals offer mature validation to the fear and isolation he expressed in so many of those early lyrics

Recorded in 2000 but unreleased, Toy, in a new box set of latterday albums, sees Bowie revisit the past just before he struck out into new territory