Artist:
David Byrne
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Classical
International
Avant-Garde
Total Time:
37:25
Record Label:
Matador
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
September 5, 2025
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David Byrne
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Classical
International
Avant-Garde
Total Time:
37:25
Record Label:
Matador
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
September 5, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: David Byrne’s last album, 2018’s American Utopia, wasn’t merely an album: It was a sprawling multimedia work that encompassed music, a stage show, and a film that captured the magic of its performance. In fact, it was so sprawling that its chronology even includes a lengthy period of dormancy, between opening on Broadway at the end of 2019 and restarting in 2021 after COVID restrictions were eased. “During the pandemic, of course, I wanted to write new songs, but I felt like what was happening was bigger than anything I could write about,” Byrne tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe of that unexpected gap. “And I didn’t quite know how to address it.”
While the songs that make up his eighth album under his given name, Who Is the Sky?, recorded with the musically elastic Ghost Train Orchestra, aren’t directly a product of that time, there are threads and themes that trace back to it. “I realized that some of these new songs are coming out of that,” he adds. The most obvious is probably the ode to his living quarters “My Apartment Is My Friend,” where Byrne ruminates on how intimate that physical space has become. "So forgive me if I hesitate, if a tear comes now and then,” he sings. “You stood by me when darkness fell/My apartment is my friend.”
Byrne has always had a gift for making the specific, and even the fantastical, seem universal. “Moisturizing Thing” plays like a Hollywood sci-fi, starring Byrne himself, in which he tries an anti-aging skin treatment only to turn into a toddler, forcing him to see the world through another’s eyes. He’s constantly asking more of himself in these songs: He questions a smiling religious teacher who’s gorging himself on hors d’oeuvres (“I Met the Buddha at a Downtown Party”); he ponders the place he’s been put in history (“The Avant Garde”); he wonders how his wife just understands things so naturally (“She Explains Things to Me”); he sees life in cycles of happiness and pain, searching and resolution (“Everybody Laughs”). And he does it all with the playfulness, grace, and naked, life-affirming joy of a musical elder statesman who has never lost his curious, creative spark.
While the songs that make up his eighth album under his given name, Who Is the Sky?, recorded with the musically elastic Ghost Train Orchestra, aren’t directly a product of that time, there are threads and themes that trace back to it. “I realized that some of these new songs are coming out of that,” he adds. The most obvious is probably the ode to his living quarters “My Apartment Is My Friend,” where Byrne ruminates on how intimate that physical space has become. "So forgive me if I hesitate, if a tear comes now and then,” he sings. “You stood by me when darkness fell/My apartment is my friend.”
Byrne has always had a gift for making the specific, and even the fantastical, seem universal. “Moisturizing Thing” plays like a Hollywood sci-fi, starring Byrne himself, in which he tries an anti-aging skin treatment only to turn into a toddler, forcing him to see the world through another’s eyes. He’s constantly asking more of himself in these songs: He questions a smiling religious teacher who’s gorging himself on hors d’oeuvres (“I Met the Buddha at a Downtown Party”); he ponders the place he’s been put in history (“The Avant Garde”); he wonders how his wife just understands things so naturally (“She Explains Things to Me”); he sees life in cycles of happiness and pain, searching and resolution (“Everybody Laughs”). And he does it all with the playfulness, grace, and naked, life-affirming joy of a musical elder statesman who has never lost his curious, creative spark.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Everybody Laughs avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra
(03:48)
2 . When We Are Singing avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:24)
3 . My Apartment Is My Friend avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:03)
4 . A Door Called No avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (02:35)
5 . What Is The Reason For It? avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra & Hayley Williams (03:11)
6 . I Met The Buddha at a Downtown Party avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:14)
7 . on't Be Like That avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:01)
8 . The Avant Garde avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:42)
9 . Moisturizing Thing avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (02:42)
10 . I'm an Outsider avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:33)
11 . She Explains Things To Me avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (02:19)
12 .The Truth avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:02)
2 . When We Are Singing avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:24)
3 . My Apartment Is My Friend avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:03)
4 . A Door Called No avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (02:35)
5 . What Is The Reason For It? avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra & Hayley Williams (03:11)
6 . I Met The Buddha at a Downtown Party avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:14)
7 . on't Be Like That avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:01)
8 . The Avant Garde avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:42)
9 . Moisturizing Thing avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (02:42)
10 . I'm an Outsider avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:33)
11 . She Explains Things To Me avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (02:19)
12 .The Truth avid Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra (03:02)
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