He emerges from isolation here and there to unleash some of the best music of his careerīlackstar is a battle cry against boredom, a wide-eyed drama set in a world just beyond our scopes. With Blackstar David Bowie remains an enigma, musically and lyrically. Though this mix of jazz, malice, and historical role-play is intoxicating, Blackstar becomes whole with its two-song denouement, which balances out the bruises and blood with a couple of salty tears It’s an album that sums up Bowie as an artist – restless, audacious, constantly looking forward to the next new ideaĪs with David Bowie’s entire career, he’s once again given us enough to keep us wanting more, while reminding us of all the inspired gifts that came before Always looking ahead: the point in which he has made his greatest music
Bowie seems to be moving agitatedly forward. It is an opulent, deep and strange album. Will go down as one of the great Bowie albums, not simply for emerging on his deathbed but for the strength of its focus, the scale of its ambition and the clarity with which he incorporates swooning, sinister jazz with contemporary production and emerges with a quintessential statement Not just an icon, or a legend, but our blackstar As we are boisterously schlepped between realms, from free-jazz to industrial to progressive rock, Bowie’s lyrics become a thematic arc And rejoice, because David Bowie hasn't sounded this relevant in an age With its simple (though oblique) lyrics and endlessly repeated choruses, it’s a secret pop record submerged in the dark places of studio improvisationīlackstar is Bowie’s most unconventional album since his dual '70s masterpieces Low and ”Heroes”, and is a breathtaking and relentlessly fascinating piece of workĪ cohesive collection that contains the same inscrutable attention to detail that a latter Scott Walker album surely would.
With his divine status, Blackstar becomes, in a strange way, a worship album about Bowie While the Starman himself might be no more, this album is a perfect reminder that his gift to humanity will never die The artist lowers his mask and takes a bow. Sort by ADM rating Sort by most recent review
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