A month ago it was announced David Bowie was releasing a new album called Darkstar (stylised ★) this was shortly after bowie debuted the eponymous track ‘Darkstar’ as the opening theme to Sky’s new series The Last Panthers. Now some new details about the new album have emerged via an interview with Bowie’s producer Tony Visconti over at Rolling Stone, where amongst other things, the Bowie collaborator claimed influences from current Hip Hop king Kendrick Lamar.

Visconti claimed that he and Bowie were “listening to a lot of Kendrick Lamar,” and that “We wound up with nothing like that, but we loved the fact Kendrick was so open-minded and he didn’t do a straight-up hip-hop record. He threw everything on there, and that’s exactly what we wanted to do. The goal, in many, many ways, was to avoid rock’n’roll.”

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem also appears on the album, playing percussion on two tracks. Visconti said that initially Murphy was going to play a significant role on the album, saying: “at one point we were talking about three producers for the album: David, James and myself,” but in the end “he had his own projects to go off to.”

David Bowie’s 25th studio album ★ will be released in January, until then you can watch the full 10 minute video of tor the albums first single below: