Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti regrouped at Hansa Studio 2 in West Berlin in mid-1977, months after finishing Low, and built songs largely from scratch in the room with a returning rhythm section and a guest guitarist flown in on short notice. The setting bleeds into the record, and the title track has outlasted almost everything else Bowie made.
Made after Bowie left a Los Angeles addiction behind for Europe, Low pairs Tony Visconti's harmonized drum sound with Brian Eno's ambient textures, opening with fractured songs before giving its second side over to instrumental mood pieces.
David Bowie's tenth album, cut at Cherokee Studios in late 1975 while he shot a film and lived on a diet of peppers and cocaine, sets the funk band from Young Americans against a new, mechanical pulse borrowed from German records. The result is the hinge between his LA period and the trilogy that followed.