Album
Blackstar
2016Rock · Music · Prog-Rock/Art Rock · Pop · Pop/Rock
A bold final chapter to Bowie’s chameleonic studio career.
Tracks
- 19:57
- 24:52
- 36:24
- 44:40
- 54:51
- 64:44
- 75:47
About this album
Released on his 69th birthday, Blackstar is a bold final chapter to David Bowie’s chameleonic studio career. He digs deep into experimentation, playing frontman to Donny McCaslin’s NYC-based jazz combo for a thrillingly live-sounding 25th album. The band is impeccable, equally adept at playing tightly wound post-rock on "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)” as they are the skronky free-jazz runs that underpin Bowie’s forcefully breathy tone on "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore.” Bowie is absolutely haunting on the beautifully odd 10-minute title track as he swings between theatrical and spacey, heavenly and menacing, swaggering and soulful.