David Bowie "Blackstar" ISO Records ? 88875173871 MPO repress 180 Gram 2016
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David Bowie ? "? (Blackstar)" ISO Records ?– 88875173871 MPO repress 2016 Vinyl, LP released with a 16-page 12" x 12" square booklet insert. The front cover has 2 stickers.
The album has never been played. The cellophane wrapping has only been opened to photograph the LP for this listing. Complete with booklet. Matrix / Runout (A side runout, etched, variant 1): MPO 15-0736 A 88875-17387-1A RJ Matrix / Runout (B side runout, etched, variant 1): MPO 15-0736 B 88875-17387-1B RJ Matrix / Runout (A & B sides runout, stamped): STERLING
? (pronounced and stylized as Blackstar) is David Bowie's twenty-fifth and final studio album. It was released worldwide through ISO, RCA, Columbia, and Sony on 8 January 2016, coinciding with Bowie's 69th birthday.
The album was largely recorded in secret between The Magic Shop and Human Worldwide Studios in New York City with Bowie's longtime co-producer Tony Visconti and a group of local jazz musicians. The album contains many styles of music throughout, including jazz and experimental rock among others. Two days after its release, Bowie died of liver cancer; his illness had not been revealed to the public until then. Co-producer Visconti described the album as Bowie's intended swan song and a "parting gift" for his fans before his death. Several lyrics throughout the album reveal this theme.
Upon release, the album was met with critical acclaim and commercial success, topping charts in a number of countries in the wake of Bowie's death, and becoming Bowie's only album to top the Billboard 200 in the United States. The album remained at the number one position in the UK charts for three weeks.[6] The album received two nominations at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in 2017, with one for Best Alternative Music Album.
"Blackstar" received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 87, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 43 reviews. Rolling Stone critic David Fricke called Blackstar "a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing". Andy Gill of The Independent regarded the record as "the most extreme album of [Bowie's] entire career", stating that "Blackstar is as far as he's strayed from pop." Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the album as "at once emotive and cryptic, structured and spontaneous and, above all, willful, refusing to cater to the expectations of radio stations or fans". The Daily Telegraph's Neil McCormick hailed Blackstar as an "extraordinary" album which "suggests that, like a modern day Lazarus of pop, Bowie is well and truly back from beyond." In a favourable review for Exclaim!, Michael Rancic wrote that Blackstar is "a defining statement from someone who isn't interested in living in the past, but rather, for the first time in a while, waiting for everyone else to catch up".
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