hours....
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hours....
Hours (stylised as 'hours...' ) is the 21st studio album by English singer David Bowie. It was released on 4 October 1999 on Virgin Records. This was Bowie's final album for the EMI sub-label. It was the first complete album by a major artist available to download over the Internet, preceding the physical release by two weeks. Hours was the first Bowie studio album to miss the US top 40 since his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and peaked at number 47. - WIKIPEDIA
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pitchfork
Hours opts for a spacy, but nonetheless adult- contemporary sound that comes across with all the vitality and energy of a rotting log.
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RollingStone
wafts into the room, breezily delivers its angsty arabesques and afterlife lullabies.
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sputnik music
Hours… is a mellow, refreshing and consistent listen.
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AV/MUSIC
Bowie spent a year listening exclusively to his own music, and the result is a melancholy, approachable album that hits the mark more often than it misses it.
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Only Solitaire
Some of this sounds more like Phil Collins, of course. In any case, this is Bowie finally assuming the position of an Old Man.
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John Mcferrin
it's not a bad album, but I don't see why I'd ever want to listen to it straight through again.
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Adrian Denning
'Hours' is the sound of Bowie sleep-walking.
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Don Ignacio
there is no denying that 'hours...' is a heavily flawed album. However, there are enough gems on it that it's a worthwhile listen for all his fans.
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The Harvard Crimson
The album's simplicity and repetitiveness will give you Bowie-brain for days, but unless you're a true Bowie-head, don't give ...hours the time.
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ALL MUSIC
it's the work of a masterful musician who has begun to enjoy his craft again and isn't afraid to let things develop naturally.
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popMatters
David Bowie is much too good for this. Please David, leave the adult-boring charts to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and the rest of that lot.
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Mark Prindle
Out of 10 songs, only 2 strike me as not great - and even one of those is pretty good! Or maybe I'm just so happy to be finished reviewing this jerk, I've lost all sense of taste.
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Music Box
‘hours...’ fused past and future into an intoxicating present while offering a fresh start to one of rock ’n‘ roll’s most consistently intriguing voices.
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