It serves as the second single from his twenty-fourth studio album The Next Day.
The song's official music video was released on 25 February 2013 and the song itself was released for digital download the following day.
In December 2013 the song was nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award in the category 'Best Rock Performance'.
According to Rolling Stone's Eric B. Danton, "the song starts with a slow, heavy back-beat and guttural guitar that dissolve into a propulsive bass-line topped with shards of guitar and atmospheric synthesizers, for an effect reminiscent of vintage Bowie."
Andrew Trendell of Gigwise described the song as a "fierce but vibrant classic Bowie rocker in the vein of material from the brilliant 'Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).