Details of new David Bowie box set featuring "lost" album Toy revealed

Earlier today (29 September), Bowie's Estate revealed via the late star's Twitter that the "lost" Bowie album from 2001 titled Toy was set to get an official release, and shared a radio edit of "You've Got A Habit Of Leaving" to accompany the news.

Now the full details of the Toy album and the box set it'll be a part of have been shared. David Bowie 5: Brilliant Adventure (1992–2001) will feature Toy, Black Tie White Noise, The Buddha Of Suburbia, 1. Outside, Earthling and 'hours...', as well as the expanded live album BBC Radio Theatre, London, June 27, 2000 and a compilation of non-album b-sides, alternate versions, soundtrack music and more called Re: Call 5.

The previously unreleased album Toy was recorded after Bowie's Glastonbury performance in 2000 with Mark Plati, Sterling Campbell, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Holly Palmer and Emm Gryner, and features interpretations of Bowie's songs fromm 1964-71.

Co-producer Mark Plati says of the record, "Toy is like a moment in time captured in an amber of joy, fire and energy. It’s the sound of people happy to be playing music. David revisited and re-examined his work from decades prior through prisms of experience and fresh perspective - a parallel not lost on me as I now revisit it twenty years later. From time to time, he used to say "Mark, this is our album" - I think because he knew I was so deeply in the trenches with him on that journey. I’m happy to finally be able to say it now belongs to all of us."

An expanded edition of Toy titled Toy:Box is also due for release in January 2022 in 3xCD or 6x10" vinyl formats. As well as including a 16-page book of previously unseen photographs by Frank Ockenfels 3, it'll close with a new song titled "Toy (Your Turn To Drive)", which was created from a jam at the end of one of the live takes of "I Dig Everything".