David Bowie’s lost 2001 album Toy, which mixed new songs and new versions of lesser-known songs from 1964-71, is receiving an official release as part of the latest raft of posthumous reissues.
The album’s co-producer Mark Plati called Toy “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 20 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.”
Recorded in Manhattan in 2000, Toy revisited songs including his debut single as Davie Jones With the King Bees, Liza Jane; his third single, You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving; and Silly Boy Blue from the eponymous 1967 David Bowie album.
