David Bowie Reportedly Releasing New Album Blackstar in January

On January 8, 2016, David Bowie will release a new album called Blackstar, the Times of London reports. The 7-song LP was reportedly recorded at the Magic Shop studio in New York with local jazz musicians. Its 10-minute title track, recently excerpted as the theme tune for the Sky Atlantic heist series The Last Panthers, is apparently due November 19. (That track will also feature in Lazarus, the stage show Bowie is co-writing.) The Times describes the record as “an album of long, jazzy jams mixed with the kind of driving beat pioneered by Seventies German bands Can and Kraftwerk.”

Elsewhere in the story, which quotes a “Bowie insider” who claims to have heard the finished record, the full title track is said to contain “Gregorian chants, a soul section, various electronic beats and bleeps and Bowie’s distinctive vocals.” The source describes the record as “completely bonkers.”

As yet, there’s no confirmation from Bowie’s camp.

Hear Bowie’s previously shared theme to The Last Panthers: