David Bowie – Toy

Toy is a posthumously released studio album by English musician David Bowie. It was recorded from July to October 2000 in New York City and featured re-recordings of songs Bowie recorded between 1964 and 1971, along with a couple of new tracks. The project was co-produced by Bowie and Mark Plati and featured musicians from Bowie's then-touring band—Mark Plati, Earl Slick, Gail Ann Dorsey, Mike Garson and Sterling Campbell—with overdubs from Lisa Germano, Gerry Leonard and Cuong Vu.

The album was originally intended for release in 2001, with Bowie planning to put it out with minimal advertising as a precursor to the surprise album model. However, a combination of practical constraints and Virgin Records' financial downturn at the time resulted in the label shelving the album indefinitely. Associates and biographers have since cited this event as Bowie's main motivation for leaving EMI and signing with Columbia Records for his final few albums. An early version of Toy was anonymously leaked online ten years later, with this rendition becoming the basis for various bootleg releases over the years. In 2021, a finalized version was included on the boxed set Brilliant Adventure [1992-2001] before seeing standalone releases in three-disc and one-disc sets the following year.

Aside from the mixing being updated, the 2021 version features an altered tracklist compared to the draft that leaked in 2011. The early versions of "Slip Away" (there titled "Uncle Floyd") and "Afraid", re-recordings of which appear on 2002's Heathen, are dropped, as are the new renditions of "In the Heat of the Morning" and "Liza Jane". The latter two tracks are, however, featured on disc two of the three-disc edition. Conversely, re-recorded versions of "Karma Man" and "Can't Help Thinking About Me" are added to the 2021 version; the remaining songs present on both the 2011 and 2021 versions are considerably re-ordered as well.