Weirdo Wedesday: David Bowie Gets Cerebral On “Sense Of Doubt”

Continuing our spotlight on the late great David Bowie this week, let’s a take a look at this artistically intense video for “Sense of Doubt” off his fantastic “Heroes” album from 1977. A strikingly ominous instrumental track, in conjures up a foreboding sense of dread in the listener that is palpably unsettling. It’s decidedly avant-garde in nature, which is a good characterization of his Berlin-trilogy of albums (Low, “Heroes”, and Lodger) as a whole. A lot of critics view this era as peak Bowie, and while that’s debatable, it’s hard to argue it wasn’t his most cutting-edge and experimental period (which is really saying something). Call it what you will, but it was no doubt compellingly strange, to say the last, with “Sense of Doubt” being a good microcosm of his decidedly cerebral and moody sound at the time. Observe: