David Bowie - The Next Day

he is still alive, you know

Is he? Still not convinced this isn't a hoax.

Visconti accuses Fripp of leaking Bowie plans, Fripp calls bullshit.

http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=22980

Had I had been invited, in my current non-performance mode, it would have been a very hard choice.

Too bad the Frippster isnt involved...would have been fun to hear.

Maybe he is on the album, but it is just totally double-secret secret, and this is all just further misdirection.

possible.

Maybe he just listens on it.

Oblique Listening Strategies.

Maybe he is on the album, but it is just totally double-secret secret, and this is all just further misdirection.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:24 PM (1 hour ago)

If so, his online diary for the last two years would be the most amazing long con since, uh, that football player's dead girlfriend.

i like the new song more now than the day it came out, really nice

the advertising i've seen around here (W12) is kinda funny - they've just stuck those white 'The Next Day' squares in the middles of existing posters.

When it come out?

Oh 11th March

Crap- you can pre-order the vinyl on amazon.co.uk but not amazon.de

for the record, koogs - don't think those are existing posters, just big backing posters meant to look like existing posters.

pity if it is, because i thought it was a good idea. will check tonight / tomorrow.

no, i was right, that's exactly what they've done. you can see if you can get close to one - the squares are new, the posters underneath are the previous ones. (the one on the walk home i remember from before, and one of the ones i saw yesterday was slightly wonky in relation to the poster underneath)

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/12964_10151265346397665_116740186_n.jpg

Geriatric David Bowie sounds like Geriatric Paul McCartney.

We Are The Dead

love it

We got song

http://www.vevo.com/watch/david-bowie/the-stars-are-out-tonight/USRV31300002

song comes off like it was written by somebody who didn't speak English fluently

I actually liked the other song but this is terrible

That's an awful video, too.

Tilda Stardust fan service vid is spectacular. Song is cool at first blush but lacking something. Need to spend more time with it.

"double with haim" lol

Rave reviews in Telegraph, Independent and an incoherent review in the Guardian.

Got a feeling this is going to be like Skyfall.

<3 Bowie as alien/Men Who Fell to Earth still on the cover of the Pantheon Weekly.
Tilda as Bowie is obv. inspired by the RSWX/Bowie project.

Song's a bit bland on first listen but like MFB I need to spend more time with it

Vevo link doesn't work in my part of the world, so I'll share this youtube link here: http://youtu.be/gH7dMBcg-gE

I'm a bit underwhelmed. It's not bad but sort of Bowie by numbers. He waited 10 years just to give us a track that could have been on Reality? I prefer the first single and am hoping the rest of the album is better than this

Tilda Swinton in this?

Sounds a bit like "She'll Drive a Big Car."

for an aging rock legend - it's a good track.
and better than the previous imo

Great to see Tilda Swinton with Bowie. When she was doing press for We Need to Talk About Kevin she looked uncannily like he did on the cover of Low.

reminds me a bit of the old-person horror sequence from Mulholland Drive.

A couple of months before I interviewed TS on the same afternoon DL did (and he's right, Low is exactly what she looked like and most people couldn't get away with the pine/midnight blue combo she was working) I got a commission to interview Nic Roeg and he said he'd cast her if he was to remake that film with a female lead.

It's a decent song. I really like the production, pure quality, the strings and the way the bass bobs along.

I've played this about a dozen times now. It would have been joint best song on Reality, with New Killer Star. There's an urgency to it that I reckon is a step up from most of the best 2000s material.

Hahah so apparently this Tumblr's been around for a while -- its creator is duly gobsmacked

http://tildastardust.tumblr.com/

http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/david-bowie-stars-are-out-tonight#more-158524

otm on the "Beethoven" connection.

That video is incredible.

Quietus review: http://thequietus.com/articles/11500-david-bowie-the-next-day-review

Interesting:

"Moreover, it closes with two mind-blowing, show-stopping, grandstanding epics: one as baroque as 'Rock And Roll Suicide' ONLY MORE SO; one as frazzled and sinister and ticking as Scott Walker’s (ok, The Walker Brothers’) 'The Electrician'."

Sounds great. The review is written by Chris Roberts though (I mean, he tends to be enthusiastic to say the least when it comes to Bowie).

He reckons Stars (Are Out Tonight) is "one of the weakest tracks, straining a little."

Thoroughly underwhelmed by both "Stars" and the video for it. This is pretty much exactly what I dreaded when I learned he was putting new stuff out.

I still really like "Where Are We Now" though, and I'm staying optimistic about the rest of the album.

Had a listen to the new track last night and found myself quite liking it... and that's all, really. Still looking forward to hearing the album.

Why can't big acts just release singles anymore? Why does it have to be teaser single, follow-up in tandem with album? No one's selling much, might as well have fun. Release a single now and then, let it hang around a little.

It's not releasing, it's sharing, bro.

I know it's a cliché easily used these days, but seriously: has no one mentioned yet how Lynchian this video is? For it is. The intro music ("Ghost of Love" echoes), Tilda Swinton (who is already David Bowie in many ways, in a parallel universe), characters flashing in and out of themselves, the panning of the camera (the shoddy filming of the balcony, the supermarket scene). I can't think of any other music video that is so Lynchian.

I like the song, but I think I like the song in combination with the video even better.

(forgot to mention the stop-motion like movement of the people in the video, too)

you can listen to it now streaming!

http://pitchfork.com/news/49744-listen-to-the-new-david-bowie-album-now/

i'm pretty impressed. did not have any expectations.

It's up. It's good.