Critical Conditions by Wayne Robins

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SLINKY VAGABOND: BOWIE REPLICANTS

SLINKY VAGABOND: BOWIE REPLICANTS

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Jan 17, 2025
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SLINKY VAGABOND: BOWIE REPLICANTS
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The name of the band is Slinky Vagabond. The new album is The Eternal Return.

The band's name comes from a line in David Bowie's song "Young Americans": "Scanning life through the picture window/ She finds the slinky vagabond." Listening to The Eternal Return, released Jan. 14, 2025, you cannot help but think about Bowie.

Slinky Vagabond is an augmented duo, consisting of New York-based musician, designer, and fashion author and academic Keanan Duffty, owner of what is likely the most misspelled easy-to-say name in the English language. His partner in the band is Florence, Italy, based guitarist, producer, and musician Fabio Fabbri, unlikely to be mispronounced in Italian. Duffty sings; Fabbri plays everything else except drums, which feature Christian Dryden. (There are exceptions on certain tracks.)

The Eternal Return is not a tribute to Bowie, except when it is: The song "Ad Astra," the Latin phrase from Virgil's Aeneid, meaning "to the stars." (The Kansas state motto is Ad astra per …

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