Listen To David Bowie’s New Song, ‘Tis A Pity She Was A Whore’

For an upcoming compilation release, entitled Nothing Has Changed, David Bowie elected to release a two-sided single. Side A debuted last month, a bizarre jazz-infused avant garde tune titled “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime).” Side B premiered earlier today on BBC 6, a tune called “‘Tis A Pity She Was A Whore.”

Bowie describes the track: “if Vorticists wrote Rock Music it might have sounded like this.” For those unaware, Vorticists were a British avant garde movement in art and poetry, founded towards the early 1900’s, which gravitated towards geometric representations as opposed to landscapes or nudes. Bowie’s new song is certainly abstract, and “acknowledges the shocking rawness of the First World War.”

The song title comes from a play by John Ford, written in the 1600s.

The song will be officially released on Nothing Has Changed, due out November 18th. The two singles will also be released as a special 10-inch on Record Store Day (on November 28th). Listen to a radio rip of the song below: