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Hours<br />

Recorded: April 1999; Seaview Studios, Bermuda,<br />

and Looking Glass, NYC.<br />

Released: ISO/Virgin International, October 1999.<br />

Chart Peak: 5 (UK); 47 (US).<br />

Key Personnel: Reeves Gabrels (gtr); Mark Plati<br />

(bs); Mike Levesque and Sterling Campbell (dms);<br />

Holly Palmer (backing vox, ‘Thursday’s Child’).<br />

Producers: David <strong>Bowie</strong> and Reeves Gabrels.<br />

Refreshingly unadorned, sometimes hauntingly<br />

intimate, Hours abandoned the high-tech cut and<br />

paste of its predecessor for a production that was<br />

distinctly downhome – indeed, too much so, for the<br />

real David <strong>Bowie</strong> is surely to be found more in gloss<br />

and the artifice, than in dress-down introspection.<br />

Although some material was thin – ‘What’s Really<br />

Happening?’, for instance, a collaboration with fan<br />

Alex Grant, featuring a melody lifted <strong>from</strong> ‘You Keep<br />

Me Hanging On’ – songs like ‘Seven’ and<br />

‘Thursday’s Child’ were finely crafted – beautiful,<br />

even – but the distinctive <strong>Bowie</strong> voice that he’d<br />

rediscovered on Earthling was gone, to be replaced<br />

mainly with a Nick Cave-ish throaty baritone. The<br />

third in a string of stylistic about-turns, the album<br />

once again suggested a return to the teenage <strong>Bowie</strong><br />

struggling to find a unique voice – and rather like<br />

Space Oddity, Hours, for all its finely crafted<br />

moments, ended up being less than the sum of its<br />

parts.

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