Talking Heads and David Byrne fans can rejoice, since the 73 -year -old singer announced their first new album in Seven Years and Tour.
The album “Who is the sky?” It will arrive at the transmission and shelves services on September 5. Shortly after, Byrne will begin the US stage of her routewhich presents two shows in November at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. In 2026, he will land in New Zealand before passing to Australia and Europe.
The 12-song album is directed by the single “Everybody Laughs”, released on Tuesday along with a music video directed by the multimedia artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo.
“Someone I know, he said: 'David, you use the word” all “a lot.” I guess I do that to give an anthropological vision of life in New York as we know it, ”said Byrne in a press release.
“Everyone lives, dies, laughs, shouts, sleeps and looks at the roof. Everyone uses the shoes of all others, what not everyone does it, but I have done it. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a balanced way by an elevating feeling of the slot and the melody, especially in the end, when St. Vincent and I am doing many sestaminar and sing together, he added together.” That: keep the opposites simultaneously. “
The Ghost Train Orchestra based in New York organized the album. It also includes collaborations with the aforementioned St. Vincent, Hayley Williams and Smile Tom Skinner drummer. The last Byrne album was “American Utopia” of 2018, which finally took the Broadway stage and in 2020 it became a concert film directed by Spike Lee.
But it wasn't a Byrne tour what fans expected.
Talking Heads, for which Byrne served as the main singer between 1975 and 1991, released a teaser on June 2, including his song “Psycho Killer”. Some even noticed that the date included in the brief clip, on June 5, is important in the history of the band.
“The band played their first concert as Cabezas Talking, inaugurated for the Ramones at the CBGB Club, on June 5, 1975,” said a fan.
Instead of a tour announcement, fans received a music video for the song, highlighted by the appearance of Irish actor Saose Ronan.
“They waited until Saoan Ronan was born to make the video,” joked another fan. “Very professional.”
