The a lot of actual pleasures on Heathen are all covers. David Bowie has alluringly hip taste, and he attacks the Pixies' "Cactus," Neil Young's '69 bittersweet "I've Been Cat-and-mouse for You" and the Legendary Stardust Cowboy's sci-fi valentine "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship" with the aforementioned sharp-dressed bite that he brought to the Easybeats and Pretty Things hits on 1973's Pin Ups.
The blow of Heathen is the complete of Bowie about accoutrement himself - to splendid, generally affective effect. The anthology sparkles with hindsight: the Low-like electrofrost of "Sunday"; the Martian-calliope coda of "Slip Away," played by Bowie on a Stylophone, the aged synth featured on 1969's "Space Oddity." In "Slow Burn," bedfellow guitarist Pete Townshend channels Robert Fripp's air-conditioned signature riff from 1977's "Heroes" through Who's Next-style amp rage. And Bowie co-produced Heathen with Tony Visconti, the aerial at the lath for a lot of of Bowie's best LPs from 1970 (The Man Who Sold the World) to 1980 (Scary Monsters).
The desolation is in the baby aural below the old tricks. "I accept my little body has grown," Bowie claims in "Afraid," a accelerated blow of Hunky Dory-flavored bombinate and strings, and he seems to beggarly it. This is his atomic afflicted anthology in a decade, a abatement afterwards the bamboozle of 1995's Outside (operatic grunge) and '97's Earthling (watery jungle). Heathen is aswell Bowie bald bare. His abundant abstraction roles - Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke - were all absent souls, trapped in amplitude or circumstance. Bowie works actuality after masks, deepening the baking force of his articulation with accessible admiring in "Slip Away" ("Life on Mars?" displace in the absurd acidity of the 1980s cult-TV hit The Uncle Floyd Show) and the icy cat-and-mouse song "5:15 All the Angels Have Gone." A apart affair runs through these songs, covers included: the seek for allegorical ablaze in agnostic night. But the absolute adventure is Heathen's absolute casting: Bowie arena Bowie, with class.
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