Music Review: Blackstar

Album:Blackstar
Singer:David Bowie
Music: Columbia
Pop: Following the news of his shocking death earlier this week, David Bowie���s 25th studio album 'Blackstar' sounds like a compilation at first. Sue (Or In a Season of Crime) was first featured on his 2014 compilation 'Nothing Has Changed'; Tis a Pity She Was a Whore was its B-side. The title track appeared last year on the television series The Last Panthers.However, the album will find place of prime, not just for being Ziggy Stardust���s last album but also its quality. The soundtrack to the Samantha-Morton-starring crime drama The Last Panthers, the title track 'Blackstar' is an effortless and nocturnal piece of score work. Sue (Or In a Season of Crime) is an urgent plea to the unknowable title character by the narrator. On Girl Loves Me, a slowly-striding beat and electronically-syncopated drums which recall DJ Shadow���s surge delicately, but it���s the quotable lyrical playfulness which provides the pleasure. Dollar Days has Bowie reminiscing over English evergreens and a former love. Despite the epic scope, it���s a piece of relative warmth. I Can���t Give Everything Away continues in the same vein as Dollar Days. The music is bright, and based around upbeat keyboards and a bit of harmonica alongside the sax. Bowie���s voice sounds most connected to that of his youth.
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