You may never buy this new David Bowie’s album after all, right now you can stream it in its entirety till it is released on March 12th! And then it will be on Spotify so…
Seriously, Bowie is making his album ‘The Next Day’ available on iTunes, and I am streaming it right now! After releasing two songs through YouTube, this is another sign that the 66-year-old rock star is totally in touch with today’s reality.
The only problem with that kind of streaming is that you don’t know which song you are listening to, it is one long stream, and I had to look up at the title of the songs, the 14 of them!
‘The Next Day’ starts the album with an anxious and furious rhythm, it’s glam-badass enough, I really like it. ‘Dirty Boys’ has some creepy sax, it sounds dark and dirty. ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’, I must admit I was so confused and scared after watching this Tilda-Swinson-Bowie-clone video, that I forgot to properly listen to the song, but I recognized it immediately, and it is so far a stand-out of the album. ‘Love is Lost’, has some bluesy and dark church-y organ and it is a little strange, oh just like a lot of the other songs anyway. ‘Where Are We Now?’, I didn’t care for it at all when I saw the video, still not enthusiastic about it. ‘Valentine’s Day’, so far I like this one, especially the background vocals, and the ascending vibe, very Bowie-sque. ‘If You Can See Me’ is puzzling, quite weird and foggy at the first listening, I couldn’t see where he was going. ‘I’d Rather Be High’, these opening guitars sound quite 80s. ‘Boss Of Me’, there’s sax again… is he talking about Springsteen? ‘Dancing Out in Space’, I thought first it was another ‘Let’s Dance’, well, not at all. ‘How Does the Grass Grow?’ these high-pith nah-nah-nah-nah are kind of distracting. ‘You Will Set The World on Fire’, at least one that is rocking hard, going all-arena-rock! ‘You Feel So Lonely You Could Die’, could be a tender allusion to Elvis Presley sung by Ziggy Stardust? And finally ‘Heat’ sounds like an intense-grandiose drama to close the album.
It was just one stream of Bowie’s ‘The Next Day’, it’s very dense and it was too much to digest at once, but I am sure you will get to read a thousand proper reviews. A first new album in 10 years is a big event, and this one is gonna be examined and re-examined, deconstructed song by song by a million music critics. So listen to it via iTunes before you get sick of reading about it.
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