The weirdest thing about “Blackstar” (or “★”), the unfathomably weird 26th studio album from 69-year-old birthday boy David Bowie, is how instantly appealing and familiar its dark and aberrant matter can be
With seven tracks ranging in length from long to longer, “Blackstar” — which dropped Friday from Sony Music — is among Bowie’s most macabre and ritualistic records, all skittering jazz drums and washes of dark energy, an unsettlingly shifty landscape of outer-space nightmares held together only by the Thin White Duke’s pulsing, mournful vibrato itself
Rippling through it all is the saxophone of Grammy-nominated Donny McCaslin, whose quartet is backing Bowie for the first time. It’s David Bowie at his most jazzed-out. And wow, is it something to take in. Read more…
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