Will Hodgkinson: David Bowie Blackstar review: Looking back to point forward. „The TImes”, 2016-01-08. [dostęp 2016-01-08]. Cytat: „Rock music is still young. Little Richard and Chuck Berry are still alive, and they started it all. Bowie has used the seven decades of knowledge and experience at his disposal to make an album that gives us a clue about where it can go from here. […] [R]ock’n’roll is wasted on the young. […] Bowie tries his hand at rapping – one of those things, like skateboarding and ketamine, that’s best left to the young.” (ang.).
★ album available for pre-order now. davidbowie.com. [dostęp 2015-11-24]. [zarchiwizowane z tego adresu (2015-11-25)]. Cytat: „David Bowie’s new album ★ (pronounced Blackstar)” (ang.).
Strona oficjalna Viscontiego. facebook.com, 2016-01-11. [dostęp 2016-01-13]. Cytat: „He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way. His death was no different from his life – a work of Art. He made Blackstar for us, his parting gift”.
Andy Gill: David Bowie and Blackstar: The reclusive rock god is still a star man. independent.co.uk, 2015-12-23. [dostęp 2015-12-23]. Cytat: „Bowie effectively bids adieu to his past and bravely sets out to seek a new future in his 70th year, an age when most are winding down. But then, David Bowie is not like other men”. (ang.).
Andy Gill: David Bowie's Blackstar – exclusive first review: A Bowie desperate to break with the past. independent.co.uk, 2015-12-23. [dostęp 2015-12-23]. Cytat: „Bowie’s back – again – but his forthcoming album takes him in a strange new direction. […] [Th]e most extreme album of his entire career: Blackstar is as far as he's strayed from pop. […] [T]hey're like footnotes to the transitional experiments of “Station to Station”, but with less potent melodies, and less interest in pleasing forms. […] It's a finale that suggests a Bowie desperate to break with the past, but acknowledging it'll always be with him – however hard he tries here”. (ang.).
Review: David Bowie's „Blackstar”. jazztimes.com, 2016-01-11. [dostęp 2016-01-14]. Cytat: „Blackstar might be neither jazzy nor accessible, but it’s impossible to turn away from”.
Cameron Adams: David Bowie’s new album Blackstar sees him continue to experiment in a league of his own. news.com.au, 2015-11-18. [dostęp 2015-12-20]. Cytat: „It’s a strange but thrilling ride where Bowie’s fallen back in love with the saxophone and continues to be delightfully unconcerned with getting back on radio. […]It’s just good to have him still making music and remaining pretty much where he’s always been – in his own league. And with an album titled ★ he’s giving the world of media a headache not seen since Prince turned himself into a symbol”. (ang.).
David Bowie – 'Blackstar' Review: The NME Verdict. nme.com, 2016-01-01. [dostęp 2016-01-01]. Cytat: „The Next Day’, an album that wistfully referenced his late-‘70s art-rock heyday, it felt like this eternal futurist was starting to look back. […] ‘Blackstar’ spins the spaceship back around and points it at the moon.” (ang.).
All Songs +1: David Bowie Fulfills His Jazz Dream. npr.org, 2015-12-17. [dostęp 2015-12-18]. Cytat: „It wasn't actually spoken out loud, but we were going to make a David Bowie album with jazz musicians, but they weren't necessarily going to play jazz. If we used rock musicians trying to play jazz, it would have been a very different album”. (ang.).
Andy Greene: David Bowie Keyboardist Jason Lindner on Making of 'Blackstar'. rollingstone.com, 2015-12-04. [dostęp 2015-12-23]. Cytat: „Above and beyond a certain level of artistry, genre just falls away completely when someone can be that intense as an artist”. (ang.).
Andy Gill: Blackstar. rolllingstone.com, 2015-12-23. [dostęp 2015-12-24]. Cytat: „Bowie's best anti-pop masterpiece since the Seventies. […] [O]ne of the most aggressively experimental records the singer has ever made”. (ang.).
Andy Gill: Blackstar. rolllingstone.com, 2015-12-23. [dostęp 2015-12-24]. Cytat: „Bowie's best anti-pop masterpiece since the Seventies. […] [O]ne of the most aggressively experimental records the singer has ever made”. (ang.).
Stephen Dalton: He shoots, he scores, he falls wanking to the floor on this boldly experimental jazz odyssey. teamrock.com, 2015-11-17. [dostęp 2015-12-19]. Cytat: „He shoots, he scores, he falls wanking to the floor on this boldly experimental jazz odyssey. […] With its seven lengthy tracks, this album is leaner and more focused than its predecessor, but also more defiantly arty and less poppy. […] One of the less convincing tracks here is the six-minute title song to Lazarus, the musical, a fairly unremarkable two-chord churn that drags in its latter stages. […] Much of Bowie’s output for the last 25 years paid lip service to his avant-garde leanings while mostly sticking within fairly straight indie-rock parameters. With Blackstar, he has gone deeper, making his most adventurous and uncompromising album since his classic run of Brian Eno collaborations”. (ang.).
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Neil McCormick: David Bowie, Blackstar, first listen: 'extraordinary'. telegraph.co.uk, 2015-12-18. [dostęp 2015-12-19]. Cytat: „With his new album, rock’s oldest futurist returns to his first love. […] The saxophone was Bowie’s first instrument, which he started learning in his pre-teens inspired by a bohemian, jazz-loving elder half-brother, Terry Burns. Bowie once said that, aged 14, he couldn’t decide if he wanted «to be a rock’n’roll singer or John Coltrane». […] What Bowie has created with this hardcore jazz crew, though, is not something any jazz fan would recognise and is all the better for it. At its best, free jazz is amongst the most technically advanced and audacious music ever heard but it can be uncompromisingly difficult to listen to for the non-aficionado. The improvisational elements that make it so gladiatorial and hypnotic live can make it over complex and inaccessible on record. Bowie’s intriguing experiment has been to take this wild, abstract form and try to turn it into songs. Blackstar is an album on which words and melody gradually rise from a sonic swamp to sink their hooks in. It is probably as close as free jazz has ever got to pop”. (ang.).
Neil McCormick: David Bowie, Blackstar, track by track. telegraph.co.uk, 2016-01-08. [dostęp 2016-03-02]. Cytat: „Tragedy of love, murder and misunderstanding”. (ang.).
James McNair: Album review: David Bowie’s Blackstar – a remarkable return to form. thenational.ae, 2015-11-19. [dostęp 2015-12-21]. Cytat: „Our host’s voice, meanwhile, sounds in ridiculously fine fettle from the boots of his baritone to the tips of his falsetto. […] Bowie hasn’t sang a note in public since 2006, and Blackstar’s best songs – its supernovas – deserve a live audience”. (ang.).
The Occult Universe of David Bowie and the Meaning of “Blackstar”. vigilantcitizen.com, 2016-01-14. [dostęp 2016-04-20]. Cytat: „His final album, Blackstar is a direct continuation of the «Bowie mythos». Meticulously planned to turn his death into a work of art, the imagery of Blackstar ties together several iconic moments of Bowie’s career into one final narrative, one that confirms the extreme importance of occultism in his work” (ang.).
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★ album available for pre-order now. davidbowie.com. [dostęp 2015-11-24]. [zarchiwizowane z tego adresu (2015-11-25)]. Cytat: „David Bowie’s new album ★ (pronounced Blackstar)” (ang.).
