The re-recording of "Sue" was released on 8 January 2016 as the fourth track on Bowie's final album "Blackstar", sequenced between "Lazarus" and "Girl Loves Me". Bowie died two days after its release, after having suffered from liver cancer for 18 months. In his review of "Blackstar", Andy Gill of "The Independent" described the remakes of both "Sue" and its B-side "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" as "like footnotes to the transitional experiments of 'Station to Station', but with less potent melodies, and less interest in pleasing forms". Petridis praised the remake over the original, writing, "It sounds like a band, rather than Bowie grafting himself on to someone else's musical vision." Rancic writes that while the original was downplayed by its inclusion on a compilation album, the remake provides "the actual left turn that "The Next Day" announced", in that it showed the artist was still "creatively unpredictable". Barry Walters of NPR praised Guiliana's drum performance on the track, writing, "[he] skewers jungle's hyper funk with irregular beats and accents that emphasise ensemble performance, not studio-sampled perfection". Rayner praised the remake as "by far" the superior version, complementing the rhythm section and the performances of McCaslin and Bowie.