Track Record

MUSIC: Bowie And Tilda Tie The Knot, Plus Yeah Yeah Yeahs And Little Boots

David Bowie, “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)”

“Where Are We Now,” the first single from David Bowie’s upcoming album The Next Day, had a kind of sleepy, dreamy quality that, while gorgeous, had us wondering if the former Ziggy Stardust was mellowing into a kind of hypnotic crooner in his old age. Not so with “The Stars (Are Out Tonight).” The album’s second single proves that Bowie is still bizarre, gender-bending rock god he always was. The Floria Sigismondi-directed video features Tilda Swinton as both Bowie’s devoted suburban wife and frenzied doppelganger. Androgynous celebrity demons and other Bowie look-alikes invade the couple’s sanitized and stylized domesticity in this creepy/sexy clip. This is the Bowie we all hope lives forever!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Sacrilege”

Karen O and co. can do no wrong in my book, and unsurprisingly the first single from the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s fourth album, Mosquito, due in April, is exquisite. “Sacrilege” builds from an eerie rock track—that kind of gleefully spooky, twitchy thing the band does so well—to a full-bodied gospel choir crescendo, taking you higher, higher, higher! O’s voice tends to rise from a quietly honeyed croon to a crazed, broken shriek, so the choir here seems like an unlikely pairing. But it works, the vocal pyrotechnics at the end mirroring the sort of maddened guitar work Nick Zinner usually unleashes on a Yeah Yeah Yeahs track.

Little Boots, “Motorway”

British electro-pop artist Little Boots has a new album due out this spring as well. Nocturnes is preceded by first single “Motorway,” a dreamy, trancey chill-out room track. As the album’s title suggests, this is music for late nights—possibly even later than you intended to stay up. It’s the kind of soothing dance track you want to hear as the grey light of morning starts to seem through your blackout curtains.

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