2016-07-30, The Guardian, by Jude Rogers
Maybe this is the Bowie many fans crave. Two other interpreters feel much more in tune with the spirit the maker of Blackstar left behind as the concert passes midnight.
Counter-tenor Phillippe Jaroussky’s take on Always Crashing In The Same Car is sparse and challenging, reinventing the song entirely. Then John Cale arrives, wearing an overcoat, scarf and a skirt. In the hands of a Velvet Underground member who influenced Bowie in the first place, Valentine’s Day becomes a dark, electronic elegy, Sorrow a buzzing, gothic anthem, and Space Oddity an excursion into trip-hop, lifted high by the House Gospel Choir.
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