Your right...I was reading the article and misread where they said "10 years"...and thought they were referring to "Blackstar".
So far...the title cut I heard from "Blackstar" is a bit...mmm...to "artsy odd" for my taste...but I'll check out some of the other cuts to see if they are any different, though based on reviews, I think the whole album is like the title cut.
I was (well I still am) a huge Bowie fan....though didn't really listen much to "Heathen" or "The Next Day". I caught a few tunes of his over the last 15+ years, but not like I was listening to Bowie back in the '70s and even early '80s, when I got to see him on his "Let's Dance" tour at Madison Square Garden. Had decent seats, but I showed up with my old-school 35mm camera, the bag, the lenses...and back then you could carry that stuff in...so I walked down to the stage area and the security guard let me through into the "forbidden zone" and even right up to the left side of the stage for like 10-15 minutes so I could get some great shots.
I think he must have assumed I was there on the job, me with that camera bag and all...so he just waved me in.
After that, I kinda moved on to other things musically, but I have great respect for Bowie, and in some ways, I was influenced by a lot of his music...though, he's had many style transitions that there was never any one in particular.
Of course...his early stuff is still the best IMO...but not just his first few things, but I would say right into the mid-80s...and since then, his output kinda dropped off, and I honestly think he just about ran out of new music styles!
I mean, he's practically lead they way in just about every modern music genre since the early '70s.
My favorite Bowie styles are where there are stronger Rock/Punk/Pop influences...though some of his avant-garde stuff is also appealing, but I kinda cherry-pick through that.