Lodger
A restless, globe-trotting collection of avant-pop. Shifting from Turkish rhythms to African-inspired textures, it is the most accessible yet eccentric Berlin-era work.
May 18, 1979 · RCA
A restless, globe-trotting collection of avant-pop. Shifting from Turkish rhythms to African-inspired textures, it is the most accessible yet eccentric Berlin-era work.
May 18, 1979 · RCA
Restless, off-kilter art pop replaces the heavy, ambient weight of the recent past with a twitchy, travelogue-like energy that darts across global rhythms and jagged song structures. Guided by experimental studio constraints and a playful sense of friction, these dense, vocal-driven tracks discard long instrumental passages in favor of a sharp, transient modernism.
How does Lodger sound next to the rest of David Bowie's catalogue?
The record inaugurates a rare obsession with travel journey, transforming the songwriting into a series of fractured postcards and disorienting postcards from the edge of the globe.
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