The enigmatic excellence that is David Bowie has returned with a career-spanning retrospective called Nothing Has Changed. It arrives next week, including the new single “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime),” which is released as a 10″ single, and features a B-side called “’Tis A Pity She Was A Whore.”
The track opens with an industrial grind segueing into a dark dance track, which Trent Reznor is undoubtedly over the moon for. The song’s intensifying beat levels out as Bowie’s voice arrives to balance the delicate, insane melodrama like a dove gliding through an urban battlezone. There’s an inescapable sense of danger, but from what? What monster lurks in the dissonance?
The song’s title is a nod to a John Ford Restoration play first performed in 1629, and Bowie himself describes as such: “If Vorticists wrote Rock Music it might have sounded like this.”
Nothing Has Changed is out 11/18 via Columbia/Legacy. The “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)” single is out digitally now.
