The final part of the Berlin Trilogy was largely recorded in Switzerland and New York
At first glance, Lodger seems almost startlingly straightforward. There are no icy instrumentals, no crashing cars, cocaine psychosis or black magic, just 10 songs (yes, all with lyrics!) spread over two sides of vinyl. Hell, despite being part of a supposed trilogy with Low and “Heroes”, it wasn’t even recorded in Berlin - the bulk of the tracks were laid to tape in Montreux, Switzerland and finished off in New York.
And yet, it’s also arguably the strangest of the three albums: a diverse, contrary record that explodes in many directions at once. The fullest account of the Bowie/Eno collaboration to that point, the pair abandoned the structure of its predecessors, instead playing inventive games with the form and content of (mostly) three-minute pop songs.