David Bowie’s twenty-seventh album Blackstar was released on the popstar’s sixty-ninth birthday, 8 January – only two days before his passing. The album is quite short when compared to previous releases from Bowie, with just seven tracks (two of which are remastered, previously-released pieces) which make up about forty minutes. Blackstar strays surprisingly far from […]
The first single to appear ahead of Bowie’s twenty-fifth record, out 8 January 2016, ‘Blackstar’ is brilliant and bizarre. A consistently subdued track, the melody unfurls slowly for nearly ten full minutes before transitioning roughly halfway through from a peculiar type of electronic-jazz fusion to the same kind of murmured, lyrically complex ballad that built Bowie’s […]