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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 8, 2013 5:37:17 GMT
" On January 8 2013 quite without fanfare and out of the blue David Bowie did something nobody really expected.
He released a new single entitled 'Where Are We Now' and announced the release of a new album in March.
The album 'The Next Day' is Bowie's 30th studio album and his first new album in 10 years.
The next chapter has surely been written by this most mysterious and important of artists."
www.davidbowie.com
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Post by kativeson on Jan 8, 2013 8:03:10 GMT
OHMYGOD
next question: will there be a tour?
because I don't want to miss that for the world !
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 8, 2013 8:24:22 GMT
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 8, 2013 10:48:57 GMT
The first review from The Telegraph ...
Neil McCormick - The Telegraph
Lush, stately, beautifully strange, weaving resonant piano chords, decaying synths and echoing drums around a simple chord progression and a weary, tenderly understated, quietly defiant vocal, David Bowie’s elegiac new single may be the most surprising, perfect and welcome comeback in rock history.
Last year, when he was spotted carrying a packed lunch in flat cap, faded jeans and sweatshirt, the Daily Telegraph was reporting that Bowie had slipped into a quiet, comfortable retirement with his wife, Iman, and daughter, Alexandria, in New York. Even those who work closest with him in his UK office claimed to be surprised by his sudden reappearance. He regularly turns down all offers of work, rebuffing requests to headline the Olympic opening ceremony and denying reports that he was involved in curating an upcoming Bowie exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum. All the while, it turns out he has been working away in the studio with producer (and New York neighbour) Tony Visconti, collaborator on 12 of Bowie’s classic albums, including The Man Who Sold The World, Scary Monsters and the Berlin triptych of Low, Heroes and The Lodger.
It is to the slightly wonky retro-futuristic ambience of late 70s / early 80s rock electronica that Where Are We Now returns, evoking memories of Berlin not only in the mix of thick synth sound and dramatically poised vocal presence, but also in a lyric about “walking the dead” through the German city’s streets. Bowie describes himself as “a man lost in time” and the song resonates with qualities of melancholic memory, dripping with a sense of time and place and highly personal nostalgia, before building around rolling drums and swimming synths to a hopeful, if ambiguous, conclusion, in which Bowie sings “as long as there’s me, as long as there’s you.”
It’s not a big, dramatic comeback and all the better for it.
Rather it is a small, perfectly formed, poetic song, that doesn’t quite yield its mysteries and leaves you longing for more.
The way the track has just appeared in cyberspace, practically unannounced, with a strange video of Bowie as a conjoined puppet, demonstrates the 66-year-old pop visionary's nuanced understanding of the modern music business.
There is nothing flash or trashy about this, not a hint of showbiz razzamatazz or old-fashioned bells and whistles, it’s a viral whisper, a ghost in the machine.
Somehow in an overexposed digital twitter age when nobody seems to be able to keep a secret,Bowie has effected to reappear with dignity and mystery intact.
He has left us with a tantalising list of song titles for an album, The Next Day, which is promised in March:
Dirty Boys, The Stars Are Out Tonight, Dancing Out In Space, You Will Set The World On Fire.
I can hardly wait.
Those of us concerned about the dismal creative state of modern music have been hoping for some young gun to emerge from their bedroom studio with something to take our breath away.
Suddenly, it seems an old gun might have beaten them to it.
Bowie has returned to the very frontline of popular music just when it needs him most.
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 8, 2013 17:14:57 GMT
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Post by ami on Jan 8, 2013 17:26:38 GMT
;D
I'm still in shock with this news (good shock, that is!)
The DT review is right on the money. I can't add enything to that.
Typical David Bowie!!!!
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Post by nightporter on Jan 8, 2013 18:08:39 GMT
i keep listening to this love it all ready can.t wait for the new lp.well kept secret mr bowie
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Post by ami on Jan 8, 2013 20:14:27 GMT
Is the proposed release in March i any way related to the opening of the V&A exibition? I think we should be told  |
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 9, 2013 9:01:08 GMT
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 9, 2013 14:02:16 GMT
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 9, 2013 14:09:07 GMT
Some of the UK papers today.
JackScottish Daily Record Daily Express The Scottish Sun i Daily Mirror
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 9, 2013 14:15:11 GMT
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 9, 2013 14:28:32 GMT
The Guardian
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 9, 2013 18:47:06 GMT
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Continued ....The Guardian The Scottish Daily Express
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Post by Halloweenjack84 on Jan 9, 2013 18:53:03 GMT
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