David Bowie 'Blackstar "2016"

Blackstar received very positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 83, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 6 reviews.

Rolling Stone critic David Fricke described the album as "a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing."Andy Gill of The Independent regarded the record as "the most extreme album of his [Bowie's] entire career," stating: Blackstar is as far as he's strayed from pop." Reviewing for Q magazine, Tom Doyle wrote: "Blackstar is a more concise statement than The Next Day and a a far, far more intriguing one."

1."Blackstar"  9:57 

2."'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" 4:52

3."Lazarus" 6:22

4."Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)"4:40

5."Girl Loves Me"    

6."Dollar Days"    

7."I Can't Give Everything Away"  

David Bowie – vocals, acoustic guitar, mixing, production, string arrangements

Tim Lefebvre – bass

Mark Guiliana – drums, percussion

Kevin Killen – engineering

Erin Tonkon – assistant engineer

Joe Visciano – mixing assistant

Kabir Hermon – assistant engineer

Donny McCaslin – flute, saxophone, woodwinds

Ben Monder – guitar

Jason Lindner – piano, organ, keyboards

Joe LaPorta – mastering engineer

Tom Elmhirst – mixing engineer

Tony Visconti – production, strings, engineering, mixing engineer

James Murphy – percussion on two tracks