Come at this as a Bowie album and you're likely to be a little disoriented, if not disappointed - this is all mid-60's Brittish rock, itself a lot of 50's R&B revival, which is to say, the opposite of Bowie's usual future-defining lean.
If you're a hard fan of that block of 60's rock, you might call this an abomination: there's little of the grit and punch of the era left, with that slinky, sleazy smooth sheen, all crooning and backing vocals and glammy surface smothering it.
If you're a fan Bowie AND of that block of 60's rock, this is a curious delight, a bizarro peek at the era that might have been, a fun series of covers by a talented musician, a middleground hybrid that doesn't quite accomplish anything, that never really comes into its own, but fills in the gaps in the map of what rock is capable of 3.5/5
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