Daft Punk “Random Access Memories”
David Bowie, Dr Dre, Guns ‘N’ Roses. The last few years has seen them return to the studio after it seemed they were done with recorded music output. They share many common strands: broken partnerships, massive delays, new sounds but the strongest common thread unfortunately is that all of these return albums (or in the case of Dre, a single or two and still no album) were somewhat mediocre. When it comes to once great artists taking these sabbaticals we do tend to forget that their output before the hiatus was less than stellar to begin with, Bowie being an exception.
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