On having over-recorded for the album , Bowie said " The one thing I can truly , seriously think about in the future that I would like to get my teeth into — it 's just so daunting — is the rest of the work that Brian Eno and I did when we started to do the Outside album in 1994 . We did improv for eight days , and we had something in the area of 20 hours ' worth of stuff that I just can not begin to get close to listening to . But there are some absolute gems in there ... " In 2016 , one day after Bowie 's death , Eno recalled : " About a year ago we started talking about '' Outside '' – the last album we worked on together . We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks . We talked about revisiting it , taking it somewhere new . I was looking forward to that . " '' Rolling Stone '' gave the album 3 out of 5 stars upon release , criticising the interspersed narrative tracks , stating " It 's the superfluous wordage – the intrusive spoken monologues , the jury-rigged cybernoir narrative , the overelaborate characterizations – that damn near sink the record . " However , the magazine generally praised the music , saying that it 's " arguably his best work since the '70s " and " a potent collection of avant-garage riffs and rhythm notions " . They went on to appreciate Bowie 's lyrics as " smart " , " effective " and " sly " , especially on the songs " I Have Not Been to Oxford Town " and " A Small Plot of Land "
Bowie 's death
Death of David Bowie
Outside (David Bowie album)