David Byrne, yeah, famous. Brian Eno, famous among the knowledgeable. And VERY productive this year. First, the Coldplay album (meh!) and upcoming, on Nov. 28, the new U2 album (with Daniel Lanois, more on that later). And now, an album collaboration with David Byrne, with whom he made three albums with Talking Heads (most crucially the epochal Remain in Light) and the ground-breaking sampling album, 1980's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Since then? Not much.
Next Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2008, they will release the album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. You can get a free download of the first track, "Strange Overtones," at the album's website.
Or, if you want to watch....I didn't like it until I heard the line, "These beats are out of fashion/These beats are 30 years old..." and I got what the song was about, and then it worked. It's about writing a song. First time I've heard that since Paul Simon did it in "Song About the Moon" in about 1983...not to Simon's level, lyrically, but still..."Your song still needs a chorus/But I know you'll figure it out..."
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