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What's Goin' Ahn: 1/6 of 2022 Is In The Books Reviews by Eric Sandberg In the normal course of events the music marketplace is flooded with new releases around November and December while the first quarter of the subsequent year sees only a tiny slate of releases by lesser artists. Sniffly old Uncle Covid, however refuses to pass on and keeps tossing his three toed cane into the machinery at the pressing plants causing a delightful spillover of notable releases early in the new year. Let's take a look at just a few.   David Bowie                                                                           ISO/Parlophone Toy (Box Set)      **** *   Toy was intended as a record and quick release project for Bowie, something like what Elvis Costello did years later with Momofuku . It found him in a reflective mood, reworking songs from the earliest parts of his career, when he was David Jones, along with a couple of new tunes. These reworked versions reveal how skilled a songwrit