Followers of Speaking Heads and David Byrne can rejoice, because the 73-year-old singer introduced his first new album in seven years and tour.
The album “Who Is the Sky?” will hit streaming companies and cabinets on Sept. 5. Quickly after, Byrne will kick off the North American leg of his tour, which options two reveals in November on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2026, he’ll contact down in New Zealand earlier than transferring on to Australia and Europe.
The 12-song album is led by the one “Everybody Laughs,” launched Tuesday alongside a music video directed by multimedia artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo.
“Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word “everybody” quite a bit.’ I suppose I try this to provide an anthropological view of life in New York as we all know it,” Byrne mentioned in a press launch.
“Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody’s wearing everybody else’s shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together,” he added. “Music can do that — hold opposites simultaneously.”
New York-based ensemble Ghost Practice Orchestra organized the album. It additionally consists of collaborations with the aforementioned St. Vincent, Hayley Williams, and the Smile drummer Tom Skinner. Byrne’s final album was 2018’s “American Utopia,” which ultimately took the Broadway stage and in 2020 turned a live performance movie directed by Spike Lee.
However it wasn’t a Byrne tour that followers have been anticipating.
Speaking Heads, for which Byrne served as lead singer between 1975 and 1991, launched a teaser on June 2, together with their music “Psycho Killer.” Some even observed that the date included within the brief clip, June 5, is a crucial one within the band’s historical past.
“The band played their first gig as Talking Heads — opening for the Ramones at the CBGB club — on June 5, 1975,” one fan commented.
As a substitute of a tour announcement, followers obtained a music video for the music, highlighted by the looks of Irish actor Saoirse Ronan.
“They waited until Saoirse Ronan was born to make the video,” one other fan joked. “Very professional.”
