Another transitional album, opening with the ten minute title track that starts with the sound of a hissing train and toys with prog krautrock beats and icy electronica. At this time Bowie was deep in the middle of an extended period of cocaine addiction, burnt out and paranoid, and morphed into the new persona of The Thin White Duke, a repellent European aristocrat with some very troubling opinions to say the least.
Thankfully Bowie quickly clarified that this was just an act that did not reflect his actual beliefs and the Duke didn’t hang around. The rest of the tracks build on the previous soul sound, with the highlight for me being Golden Years, one of his best.
Off to Berlin next!
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