The Vinyl Countdown # 1292

David Bowie, The Next Day (2013)

You can’t deny that the new David Bowie album - the very announcement of it, even - from out of nowhere was a key musical event of 2013. Pity the finished product was a tad underwhelming. Oh, it’s got moments - I still think the first single is the best thing on it. Actually, about a third of it is pretty good, a third of…