No Plan (EP)
No Plan is an extended play, comprising songs written and recorded by English musician David Bowie, released posthumously on 8 January 2017. The release coincided with what would have been Bowie's 70th birthday, almost a year after his death. "No Plan" compiles the original songs written for Bowie's Off-Broadway musical, "Lazarus", including the titular "Lazarus", "No Plan", "Killing a Little Time", and "When I Met You". The songs were first recorded by the cast of the musical as part of its official soundtrack. The recordings featured on "No Plan" come from the sessions for  Bowie's twenty-fifth and final studio album "Blackstar", with "Lazarus" appearing as the third track on the album. Upon release, "No Plan" debuted at #138 on the "Billboard" 200, selling more than 5,000 units in its first week there. The music video for the title track was also released in accompaniment with the EP. It was directed by Tom Hingston. Critical reception. The EP received positive reviews from music critics. "Exclaim!" critic Calum Slingerland wrote: "One would hope the plan for Bowie going forward would be for him to avoid falling into the category of "rock icon with innumerable  posthumous releases," but thankfully for listeners, the music on "No Plan" holds up." "The Independent"s Andy Gill stated: ""Blackstar"<nowiki>’</nowiki>s moods and musical modes are continued through these tracks, in which Thomas Jerome Newton's decline eerily reflects Bowie's own." AllMusic senior critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine thought that the tracks on the EP "provide a bittersweet coda to Bowie's 21st century comeback", even if "these songs don't feel like a surprise". Alfred Soto of "Spin" stated: "Presenting listeners with two discrete but related musical adventures like "★" and "No Plan", the survivors grasped that even the  oblique tastes better with a dash of the obvious." Personnel. Personnel adapted from "No Plan" liner notes. Musicians Production Design