“We were born upside down”
The Mail on Sunday has made ★ Album Of The Week in the EVENT magazine supplement.
Here are a few edited excerpts from the full-page review by Tim de Lisle…
“At some point in the past 20 years, rock turned upside down. Young singers discovered that it was hip to be square, and the task of delivering the shock of the new fell into the hands of the old. The boldest single released by a big name in 2015 comes from a gentleman who qualified for his pension in 2012.”
“The David Bowie song Blackstar is very long, very dark and very strange, lasting ten minutes, feeling both contemporary and medieval. This is a proper Bowie single. It has reached four million people via a powerful video, which adds a blind prophet to the great gallery of his iconography.”
“Donny McCaslin’s dexterity suits Bowie’s voice, which switches as adroitly as ever from intimacy to melodrama, sorrow to anger, desperation to grandeur. His long break from touring since 2004 seems to have kept his voice fresh.”
“Lazarus, the new single and title track of the musical, is six minutes of slow-burning magic.”
“Bowie has something granted to only a few stars in the whole firmament: a licence to be bad. And he uses it, most of the time, to be very good.”
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