Reality.
| David Bowie
Reality.
Reality is the 23rd studio album by David Bowie. It was released on 15 September 2003 on his Iso Records label, in conjunction with Columbia Records. - WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
Bowie is not aiming for an unattainable Ziggy-caliber alien classic, but is simply going to rock like any other human, in a pleasantly mild, non-conformist manner.
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Adrian Denning
'Reality' was met with a huge sigh of relief, Bowie releasing two good albums in a row! Shocking, I know. 'Reality' follows the formula of 'Heathen' to the letter, although switches on the latent rocker in Bowie rather than the quiet elegance of 'Heathen'.
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RollingStone
As a young subversive, David Bowie played with Sixties verities about gender, identity and rock & roll itself, insisting that truth was nothing but another mask. Now fifty-six and a revered figure himself, he’s searching for some version of truth — or, as this album title puts it, Reality — and it turns out he was right the first time.
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SLANT
Often flawed and fumbling, Reality is not the disco king’s best work, but it is arguably his most sincere.
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BBC
Reality is a proper album, with a beginning, a middle and an end. It's direct, warm, emotional honest, even and the surfeit of pleasingly deceptive musical simplicity allows the irony of the central concept - that there is no such thing as reality anymore - an opportunity to filter through. It's also rather lively and convincing. With Earthling, its David Bowie's best album since Scary Monsters.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
This is Bowie at his best, accepting his role in rock ‘n roll and completely restoring his career in the process.
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sputnik music
The reality of a legend finding his confidence again is a delight to behold…
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AV/MUSIC
Reality comes as something of a curveball. Neither a calculated trip to Bowie's past nor a wagon-hitching ride to current pop trends, the album has an energy all its own.
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The Guardian
Reality is touching, intelligent and - a bonus - listenable.
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ALL MUSIC
With any luck, Bowie will retain this level of quality for a long time to come.
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Shaking Through
Reality proves a worthwhile addition to the Bowie catalogue, an album whose creator is neither starting trends nor following them, but rather comfortable in his own, near six-decade-old skin.
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The Austin Chronicle
While Reality isn't a failure by anyone's standards, there's precious few moments that you can recall, much less hum, an hour after listening to it.
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Concert Live Wire
it's refreshing to hear him as if he truly was starting from square one again.
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Only Solitaire
Reality is just as pessimistic and disspirited as Hours, but not even for a moment sounds like 'artistic capitulation'. Because Bowie is finally doing it the way he deems it necessary to do, not the way that musical fashion expects of him. Keep it up, Mr Jones!
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
Unfortunately, as much limited optimism as this and other positives from the album could provide for the future, this ended up as Bowie's last studio album for a long while. It's not a great album by any means, but it's still (aside from Tin Machine 2) the second best album he made after 1980, so that has to mean something.
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Don Ignacio
Reality is nothing but a collection of songs. And these songs are GOOD.
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