David Bowie - The Next Day

The Next Day is the twenty-fourth studio album by British musician David Bowie, released on 8 March 2013 on his ISO Records label, under exclusive licence to Columbia Records.

The album was announced on Bowie's sixty-sixth birthday, 8 January 2013.  Bowie's website was updated with the video for the lead single, Where Are We Now?, and the single was immediately made available for purchase on the iTunes Store.

It was Bowie's first album of new material in ten years, since 2003's Reality, and surprised fans and media who believed he had retired.  

Recording of the album took place in secret at The Magic Shop and Human Worldwide Studios in New York City with producer Tony Visconti.

The Next Day was met with critical acclaim, and earned Bowie his first number-one album in the United Kingdom since 1993's Black Tie White Noise.  It was ranked as the second best album of 2013 (in a tie with Blue October's Sway) by German music magazine Kulturnews and was also nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize.

The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards and for MasterCard British Album of the Year at the 2014 BRIT Awards.

The cover art for the album is an adapted version of Bowie's 1977 album, "Heroes", with a white square with the album's title obscuring Bowie's face.  Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook, who also designed packaging for Heathen and Reality, the obscuring of the photograph connotes "forgetting or obliterating the past".

Check out a couple of tracks from the album:  The Next Day; Where Are We Now?; The Stars (Are Out Tonight); and Valentines Day.

This is a double album 2LP pressed on 180 Gram Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve, wth Inner Sleeves containing lyics, pressed in Europe. This also contains a CD copy of the entire album.