David Bowie - Scary Monsters SACD

Bowie began the ’80s by translating the druggy experiments of his late-’70s albums into a new wave record that’s dark, berserk, funky and drunk on alienated weirdness. He repudiates his old fascination with fascism, dismisses “Space Oddity”’s Major Tom as a junkie and sings with actorly abandon over jagged, poison-tipped arrangements. The album also features the most futuristic guitar playing in his discography, especially Robert Fripp’s five-dimensional warp-spasm solos.