LONDON British musician David Bowie celebrated his 69th birthday yesterday with the release of a new album, Blackstar, which received approval from the critics.
The singer, songwriter, actor and artist returns to the music scene after the success of 2013 The Next Day, released after an interval of 10 years.
Blackstar, co-produced by Tony Visconti, historical Bowie collaborator, has only seven songs, but the Critics praised the work, which the British newspaper The Guardian brand “a fascinating rupture” with the past of the multifaceted artist.
The album has parts of jazz but is full of what the weekly NME described as ” deformed musical melodies, dissonant industrial rock, soul ballads filled with an ethereal folk-pop and even hip-hop. “
Before the launch yesterday, the journal Rolling Stone wrote last month that the “creative and disturbing Blackstar is the best antipop Bowie masterpiece from the 70″.
The singer released the video for the single “Lazarus” this week , in which he appears lying on a hospital bed blindfolded.
Born with the name of David Jones, Bowie shot to fame in 1969 with the song “Space Oddity”.
No comments:
Post a Comment