Feature: On the death of David Bowie
I listened to Blackstar twice on January 9, the day after it came out and a day before David Bowie died. I listened to it a third time on January 11. Between several songs on the album, there are little rustles of paper and breaths, high and close to the mic. During that third listen, those little noises became personal in a way that they weren’t before. Those tiny movements of air now seem like Bowie letting us know that he was still back there, that he was still pulling the strings.
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