( EW.com ) -- David Bowie is full of surprises . A few weeks ago , he announced that his first new album in 10 years was imminent . Though `` The Next Day '' was n't due to hit stores until Tuesday , March 12 , the album is currently streaming on iTunes in its entirety . The official EW review of David Bowie 's The Next Day is below , and a version of it will be appearing in the magazine on newsstands next Friday , March 8 . Early in his career , David Bowie realized that reinvention came naturally to him , and soon the spirit of change became his prime persona . Through all of his alternate guises — space alien , drugged-out cartoon , machine-obsessed private detective , guy who just discovered the Pixies — he 's maintained a spectacularly consistent inconsistency , and while not all of it has worked , at least we always knew that another character was following right behind . For the last decade , however , his chief guise has been Invisible Man . Following turn-of-the-last-century releases Heathen and Reality ( which found him reuniting with classic-era producer Tony Visconti ) , he suddenly disappeared , cutting short a tour , ignoring music , and making only occasional appearances amidst rumors of failing health so persistent that the Flaming Lips recorded a song called `` Is David Bowie Dying ? '' In the meantime , pop stars like Lady Gaga and Beyoncé got rich crafting their own evil twins and countless bands co-opted Bowie 's fashionable bohemian androgyny . 25 Albums We Ca n't Wait To Hear . Now he 's returned to look back at a lifetime of looking forward . `` The Next Day , '' his 26th album , finds Bowie very much alive and vacillating between forward-looking restlessness and outright nostalgia . Day takes the idea of returning to past experiments and exposes them to gamma radiation , speeding up the evolution process across 14 tracks . And like a judicious parent , he treats his most high-profile projects equally , paying homage to all their quirks and foibles : The album-opening title track sounds like a return to Station to Station , single `` Where Are We Now ? '' wallows in Low-era melancholy , and `` Boss of Me '' is a gospel-glam strut in the spirit of Aladdin Sane 's `` Watch That Man . '' Visconti drops in a bevy of sonic retrospective winks , making it easy to spot references and also to re-edit : If you dig the end-of-the-world dirges from Lodger , you 'll adore `` You Feel So Lonely You Could Die , '' but if you never got over Space Oddity 's psychedelic folk , you can jettison all but `` I 'd Rather Be High '' from iTunes . David Bowie drops new single , announces first album in ten years . A few tracks lack clear antecedents ( see : the Jack White-aping `` You Will Set the World on Fire '' ) , and some simply lack cohesion , or at least enough melody to anchor them . But Day is also an excellent reminder that Ziggy Stardust , the Thin White Duke , and the lunatic who sang Christmas songs with Bing Crosby have all been coexisting in the same brain for decades . Now that all of his alter-egos have settled down , he can finally get on with the business of being David Bowie — auteur , bon vivant , and eternally , rock 's most gorgeous space alien . B . Best Tracks . `` Love Is Lost '' A hooky , paranoid rocker . `` Valentine 's Day '' A fuzzy glam-rock redux . See the original article at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
`` The Next Day '' is David Bowie 's first new album in 10 years . It was released on September 23, 2016 and it features the hit single'Ashes To Ashes' which has been a huge success for him since its release back in 2013. Bowie 's 26th album finds him vacillating between forward-looking restlessness and outright nostalgia .