David Bowie - Blackstar (Mastered for iTunes) 2016
David Bowie - Blackstar (Mastered for iTunes) 2016
M4A AAC 256 kbps | Tracks: 7 + Bonus Video «Blackstar» + Digital Booklet | 00:41:16 | 218 Mb
Genre: Art Rock, Experimental Jazz | Label: © + ® ISO Records, Columbia Records, Sony Music Entertainment
Blackstar is David Bowie's 28th studio album and his first since stunning the world in 2013 with the critically acclaimed 'The Next Day'. The release date for Blackstar coincides with David's birthday. The album's title track is the first single, and is accompanied by a short film visual by the acclaimed director Johan Renck. Music from the Blackstar single has been featured in the opening title credits and trailers for the new TV series The Last Panthers. The series, also directed by Johan Renck, began airing across Europe in late October, 2015, and will premiere in the U.S. on SundanceTV in Spring, 2016.
Blackstar has received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 86, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 28 reviews. Rolling Stone critic David Fricke described the album as "a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing". Andy Gill of The Independent regarded the record as "the most extreme album of his [Bowie's] entire career", stating that "Blackstar is as far as he's strayed from pop." Reviewing for Q magazine, Tom Doyle wrote "Blackstar is a more concise statement than The Next Day and a far, far more intriguing one." In a favourable review for Exclaim!, Michael Rancic wrote that Blackstar is "a defining statement from someone who isn’t interested in living in the past, but rather, for the first time in a while, waiting for everyone else to catch up". The New York Times described the album as "at once emotive and cryptic, structured and spontaneous and, above all, willful, refusing to cater to the expectations of radio stations or fans".
Tracklist:
01. Blackstar (10:02)
02. 'Tis a pity she was a whore (04:48)
03. Girl Loves Me (06:24)
04. Lazarus (04:41)
05. Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) (04:55)
06. Dollar Days (04:41)
07. I Can't Give Everything Away (05:46)
+ Digital Booklet - Blackstar
Bonus Video:
David Bowie - Blackstar (Mastered for iTunes) 2016
David Bowie - Blackstar (Mastered for iTunes) 2016
David Bowie - Blackstar (Mastered for iTunes) 2016
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