1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle) [2021 Remaster]

1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle) [2021 Remaster]

Few people were making sci-fi concept albums in 1995, but Bowie took the plunge in style, setting his tale in an industrial netherworld where serial murders have become art. The dual return of studio wizard Brian Eno and keyboardist Mike Garson brings echoes of Bowie’s ‘70s adventures. “The Hearts Filthy Lesson” revisits the free-flowing jazz piano heard on Aladdin Sane. But Bowie kept an ear on modern trends as well: the heavy mechanical pulses of "Hallo Spaceboy" have the jarring energy of Nine Inch Nails.

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