David Byrne has a new album coming titled "Who Is The Sky"!
Out on Sept. 5, the album comes with an international tour that will stretch into 2026. Who Is the Sky? features St. Vincent, Paramore's Hayley Williams and Smile drummer Tom Skinner.
"I did a LOT of cooking (Mexican and Indian mostly) and a LOT of drawing," Byrne said. "I've found that when the time comes, it's easier to start if there's a little stockpile – and before too long there was. Very rudimentary songs began to emerge, with just me on acoustic guitar singing over a programmed loop or beat."
Byrne will hit the road Sept, 14 and make his way across North America through the end of 2025.
“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 continued. "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."