David Bowie_BlackStar - Album Review (one last punch) :'|

                      

First album in 1969, died at the age of 69, David fuckin' Bowie still plays with our minds and hearts.

The world woke up yesterday on the sad news, One day or two after the final album release. I was still thinking about making my first video review about his album, but no way now, I know I'd get too emotional talking about him and I'll ruin it.

This genre-bending album blends Pop, free Jazz, Rock and some hip-hop for the first time in his career.
Le'ts get down to the tracks;

BlackStar:

                                  

This is a really fitting epitaph as Ctv wrote, He's a black star! He's the celebrity of all celebrities but still he's an outcast, doesn't fit a lot, or maybe too awesome and great to fit!
I need to write a separate review on the video itself -somehow Youtube won't allow me to add it here so go check it, NOW!-.
But it's like everything you'd expect from Mr Bowie, the dark elegance, the same nihilism, the blurry soundscapes, the so-called "Satanic rituals", the stylish dwelling, except this time with a vulnerable old man with a wider vocal range!


Tis a pity she was a whore:

Somehow as I heard it takes its title from a playwright from the 17th century.

The music here is all about the sax (screams specifically), drum and bass, mixed together in a pretty exotic way.
The song winds up to the climax where you feel like Bowie is pushing the sax to play harder and scream higher!

Mr Bowie -like he always did- gives us some uncanny gender-bending lyrics like he always used to "she punched me like a dude".


Lazarus;

                      

This melancholic haze of swirling saxophones and the Jazz-but-also-Rock buzz with lyrics that sound now like a farewell "look up here, I'm in heaven. I got scars that can't be seen" even the opening lyric itself would bring up tears to your eyes :/
 When you watch the spooky video -that he shot a day before he died- and get his message, you then get the chills! I love and hate that piece of post-punk sorrow so freakin much!


Sue (or In a season of crime);

From the first few seconds it gets you attached to its hyperkinetic music and your ears demand for more even if it doesn't sound like studio-quality but these irregular beats don't need studios anyways!


Girl loves me;

Who the hell is Cheena? and also where the fuck did Monday go?
We shall never know!
These cool layers of synth funky beats are so catchy and tight! And this song has a lot to do with the famous "A Clockwork orange" and not only using some of its slang!


I can't give everything;

Here and only here you can listen to the only guitar solo, the really farewell guitar solo! When the album reaches its climax and he himself sounds his most frustrated and fragile.

He finally dumps the complex rhythms to give us the steady electronic rhythm.
I love the line "saying no but meaning yes, this is all I ever meant" though.

Thank you Mr Bowie, for your weirdness <3