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The 33 1/3 series is kind of a mixed bag, sometimes you get these really insightful examinations of a specific albums production, historical context, and antecedents, and sometimes you just get a delerious fanboy's paean. Wilcken's book fortunately falls into the former camp. He obviously loves the album, yet manages to maintain a healthy distance and a high level of critical examination overall. And he shows the sort of ideas that Bowie, Eno et al were playing around with in the mid 70's before so much of it would become such a canonical part of contemporary popular music. And he does a good job of untangling a knotty, often over-discussed time in Bowie's career. This offers a really good balance of colorful anecdotes, techie production information, and a broader examination of the delightfully odd turns that pop started taking in the 1970s.