Jody Rogac
David Byrne will release his first solo album since 2004 in March.
The details of American Utopia, which is set to feature collaborations with Brian Eno, Sampha and others, were confirmed during Byrne’s ongoing Reasons To Be Cheerful literary series in New York. It will be out on March 9th and followed by a world tour which the Talking Heads legend has promised will feature ‘the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense’.
“These songs don’t describe an imaginary or possibly impossible place but rather attempt to depict the world we live in now,” he says of the LP itself. “Many of us, I suspect, are not satisfied with that world—the world we have made for ourselves. We look around and we ask ourselves—well, does it have to be like this? Is there another way? These songs are about that looking and that asking.”
“This album is indirectly about those aspirational impulses. Sometimes to describe is to reveal, to see other possibilities. To ask a question is to begin the process of looking for an answer.”
American Utopia tracklist:
I Dance Like This
Gasoline And Dirty Sheets
Every Day Is A Miracle
Dog’s Mind
This Is That
It’s Not Dark Up Here
Bullet
Doing The Right Thing
Everybody’s Coming To My House
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