David Byrne has announced his new album, 'Who Is The Sky?', his first album since 2018's American Utopia.
It includes 12 songs, which were arranged by New York based chamber group, Ghost Train Orchestra. The album which was produced by Kid Harpoon, will be released on September 5 via Matador Records.
You can pre order it for yourselves via this link here.
“Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word “everybody” a lot.’ I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it,” Byrne said on the album.
“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. Music can do that – hold opposites simultaneously. I realized that when singing with Robyn earlier this year. Her songs are often sad, but the music is joyous".
“It took me a second to realize, oh yeah, these songs are personal, but with David’s unique perspective on life in general,” adds Kid Harpoon (aka Tom Hull). “Walking around New York listening to the demo of ‘Everybody Laughs’ was so joyous, because it made me feel like we’re all the same – we all laugh, cry and sing. The thing about David that resonates with a lot of people is that he’s in on the joke. He gets the absurdity of it all, and all of these personal observations are his perspective on it".
Along with the album, David Byrne has also announced a huge world tour.
Beginning with the North American leg of the tour on September 14, Byrne's tour will see him play across Australia and New Zealand in January 2026, before performing a run of shows in Europe and the UK the following month.
Tickets for these shows go on sale Friday 13 June at 10am via this link here, with pre sale available from today to June 12 at the same time.
Recently, David Byrne was brought out onto the stage at New York's Governors Ball by pop star Olivia Rodrigo, as they performed hits , ‘vampire’, ‘jealously, jealousy’ and ‘traitor’, as well as Talking Heads' classic, 'Burning Down the House'. More on this from Nova here.
