David Bowie releases new single Lazarus
David Bowie’s new single ‘Lazarus’ taken from the album (pronounced Blackstar) will be released digitally on December 18th and will receive its world premiere on BBC 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq show on the 17th.
‘Lazarus' is the only track on also featured in the stage production ‘Lazarus’ written by Bowie and Enda Walsh and directed by Ivo Van Hove, which opened December 7th in New York to great critical acclaim: The New York Times raved "Ice-cold bolts of ecstasy shoot like novas through the glamorous muddle and murk of Lazarus, the great-sounding, great-looking and mind-numbing new musical built around songs by David Bowie,” while Rolling Stone hailed Lazarus as a “Surrealistic Tour de Force... milk-swimming, lingerie-sniffing, gin-chugging theater at its finest.”
ACCLAIM FOR ALBUM
MOJO ‘Almighty levels of intensity’ Four stars UNCUT ‘Welcome to Bowie’s (latest) musical Year Zero’ 8/10 Q ‘In essence can be seen as a fourth addition to the Berlin trilogy of albums’ (Four stars)
is released January 8, 2016 on ISO/COLUMBIA Records