A world tour kicks off the same month that Byrne has called “the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense. The cover art for American Utopia is by ‘outsider artist’ Purvis Young and the album itself will be released by Todomundo/Nonesuch Records on 9 March 2018. 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.” Many of us, I suspect, are not satisfied with that world – the world we have made for ourselves. Speaking about the album, Byrne said: “These songs don’t describe an imaginary or possibly impossible place but rather attempt to depict the world we live in now. The ten track album includes the song Everybody’s Coming To My House, which was co-written with Brian Eno. The record forms part of a larger multi-media project dubbed Reasons To Be Cheerful, an ongoing series curated by Byrne of ‘hopeful writings’, photos, music, and lectures – all themed around optimism Drake’s unmistakable baritone leads the shape-shifting “MELTDOWN,” while Playboi Carti unspools his magnificent mumble over the buzzy “FE!N.” But when Beyoncé arrives for “DELRESTO (ECHOES),” its muted club contents echoing her own dance music renaissance, she provides a big diva energy that luxuriates amid Scott’s cutting edge.David Byrne will issue American Utopia next month, his first solo studio album since 2004’s Grown Backwards. The deliberately concealed guest list contains quite a few stars and superstars, and shrewd listeners may enjoy trying to identify them all without a cheat sheet. He now seems to enjoy a certain austerity, as on “I KNOW ?” and “LOST FOREVER,” but remains incapable of completely escaping the maximalist thrills of his past. The opening boom-bap bombast of “HYAENA,” the funkadelic crunch of “MODERN JAM,” and the proggy thump of “CIRCUS MAXIMUS” are just a few examples of how he has so lavishly expanded his sonic universe with this record. Without fail, Scott delivers something only he could have delivered, a thoroughly riveting album that transmutes star power and experimental artistry into a marvelous musical monument. We had another song we tried out that we ended up not using Buck Naked, one of his songs. Thus the collective anticipation for UTOPIA could not have been higher. The idea of singing songs that were different from the American Utopia set list got him excited. His commercial success at least partially hinged on the futuristic, otherworldly sound and image he cultivated, with listeners tuning in just to hear what fresh level of the game he’d unlocked. The cast of David Byrne’s American Utopia performs 'Like Humans Do' for The Tonight Show.The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In American Utopia Byrne is seeking connection: Connection among the music, connection within the songs in his catalogue, connection among his performers, connection with the audience, and. Still, looking at hip-hop and rap music specifically, few could deny the extraordinary impact his music had on a young generation of emerging artists, their radical vocal and production style choices so overtly informed by his own vision. A great deal obviously occurred in the five years between ASTROWORLD and UTOPIA, Travis Scott’s third and fourth solo studio albums, respectively. American Utopia features a series of songs that ask questions about the meaning of home.
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