David Bowie- Low (1977)

This is an interesting David Bowie album to find myself reviewing. Obviously I own and know loads, from all over his career but with a bias towards the ‘70s, probably just like you. But it’s interesting to listen to this album, from the almost cliched “Berlin period” where he and Iggy Pop (possibly the coolest couple of mates who ever existed) hung out, got wasted and made unbelievably good and important music.

We know this album- it’s quite well known and has “Sound and Vision” on it. So we forget how revolutionary it was of Bowie to record an album which, to be straightforwardly honest, sounds much closer to Brian Eno’s excellent solo stuff (very much in the zeitgeist) than anything he’d done before. We also forget that Bowie, k own as a singer and not more than an incidental instrumentalist, having several tracks on here that are instrumental.

And yet it sounds like Bowie. And like its time and place. He sort of does that. I assume you know this album but, if you don’t, kindly remedy that immediately. That is all.