January 10th 2017 marked the first anniversary of the death of David Bowie, the first birthday of the day where Western Pop Culture’s relationship with death and eulogy was turned on its head. Of course, as we were quickly informed, that fateful day was by no means Bowie’s date of departure from the music industry. Oh […]
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In retrospect: David Bowie’s ★
When Bowie covered Ronnie Spector’s ‘Try Some, Buy Some’ on 2003’s Reality, he simultaneously traversed his own mythology and the Wall of Sound fabled by Ronnie’s late husband. His fixation with texturing often incredibly dense and provocative instrumentation continued over a ten year synapse to The Next Day, to be been lucidly resurrected again in […]