David Bowie keyboardist Jason Lindner has opened up to Reporters about the upcoming album?, (pronounced Blackstar).

"The feeling in the studio was like, "This is rock & roll," he said. "That's what I came away with.

It has that energy, that rebellion and that intensity. It's all rocking. That's what I came away with.

I think genres, to me, are more about energy and the type of feeling you get than technical stuff.

There's definitely some jazz artists that have that feeling. Above and beyond a certain level of artistry, genre just falls away completely when someone can be that intense as an artist."

"It's an incredible privilege, and we were completely blown away," he adds of Bowie. "He's just a super perfectionist.

For him to just go in and kill it on vocals to where we're all just astounded, first take without any warming up, and go back and say, "We're going to redo all the vocals.

Those are just scratch vocals." It was like, "Wow.""

Blackstar will be released on January 8.