David Bowie gives first new album interview as 'word flowchart'

David Bowie has finally broken his seemingly strict vow of silence following the release of his recent album, The Next Day, speaking to literary journal The Rumpus about the ideas behind his latest work.

And quite literally they are simply ideas, given in single word form. As American author Rick Moody writes, he “somehow persuaded David Bowie to part with a few words on the subject of this album” all because Bowie “”once mentioned me in a complimentary way from a stage, in New York City, in the later nineties”.

The result is a flow of words from Bowie, 42 to be exact, that should have some telling resemblance to the themes explored in greater detail on the record. And here those are:

Effigies

Indulgences

Anarchist

Violence

Chthonic

Intimidation

Vampyric

Pantheon

Succubus

Hostage

Transference

Identity

Mauer

Interface

Flitting

Isolation

Revenge

Osmosis

Crusade

Tyrant

Domination

Indifference

Miasma

Pressgang

Displaced

Flight

Resettlement

Funereal

Glide

Trace

Balkan

Burial

Reverse

Manipulate

Origin

Text

Traitor

Urban

Comeuppance

Tragic

Nerve

Mystification

It was also revealed recently that Bowie is currently working on a new music video for his album’s title-track, which will star none other than actor and old friend Gary Oldman.