{"id":1201,"date":"2016-01-08T22:13:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/so-who-wants-to-get-weird-with-david-bowie-youre-in-luck-blackstar-is-here\/"},"modified":"2016-01-08T22:13:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:13:01","slug":"so-who-wants-to-get-weird-with-david-bowie-youre-in-luck-blackstar-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/so-who-wants-to-get-weird-with-david-bowie-youre-in-luck-blackstar-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"So who wants to get weird with David Bowie? You're in luck: 'Blackstar' is here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The weirdest thing about “Blackstar” (or “\u2605”), 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<\/p>\n

With seven tracks ranging in length from long to longer, “Blackstar” \u2014 which dropped Friday from Sony Music \u2014 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<\/p>\n

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…<\/a><\/p>\n

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The weirdest thing about “Blackstar” (or “\u2605”), 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 … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}