David Bowie will release a brand new studio album, 'The Next Day,' this March. It will be the recently reclusive rocker's first new record since 2003's 'Reality.'

Bowie wasted no time this morning (Jan. 8) kicking off his 66th birthday celebration, launching a new website mere minutes after midnight ET with the announcement and the release of a video for the record's first single, 'Where Are We Now?'

The video for the melancholy, restrained piano-based ballad features the faces of Bowie and a woman superimposed on the heads of a pair of mannequins dressed in fur bodysuits in an artist's loft. Near the end we get our first non-paparazzi look at the always fashion-forward rock star in years, and it seems his new sartorial statement is... jeans and a t-shirt? Who cares, Bowie's back! Maybe it was casual Friday.

As his site explains, 'The Next Day' will be released on March 8 in Australia, March 12 in the U.S.A. and March 11 everywhere else. A 14-track standard edition and a 17-track deluxe version of the album are currently available for pre-order on iTunes, and you can pick up the new single there as well.

 

David Bowie 'The Next Day' Track List:

1. 'The Next Day'
2. 'Dirty Boys'
3. 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)'
4. 'Love is Lost'
5. 'Where Are We Now?'
6. 'Valentine's Day'
7. 'If You Can See Me'
8. 'I'd Rather Be High'
9. 'Boss of Me'
10. 'Dancing Out of Space'
11. 'How Does the Grass Grow?'
12. '(You Will) Set the World on Fire'
13. 'You Feel So Lonely You Could Die'
14. 'Heat'

Deluxe Version Bonus Tracks:
15. 'So She'
16. 'I'll Take You There'
17. 'Plan'

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