Bowie breaks silence on new album

Despite breaking his silence in the form of a 42 word list, the quest for that elusive David Bowie interview continues.

Bowie responded to a request from American novelist Ricky Moody for a "work flow diagram" of The Next Day not with a diagram, he sent a 42 word list instead.

Moody, who's best known for 1994 novel The Ice Storm, published the list on The Rumpus.

Speaking of the list, Moody commented that it was "really excellent, and exactly in the spirit of this album, and the list is far better than I could ever have hoped, and it's exactly like Bowie, at least in my understanding of him: impulsive, intuitive, haunted, astringent and incredibly ambitious in the matter of the arts. Bowie is a conceptual artist, it seems to me, who just happens to work in the popular song, and he wants to make work that goes somewhere new, and this is amply demonstrated by the list."

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