Reuniting for their first album since 1981's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," David Byrne and Brian Eno this week are self-releasing "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" in digital form via everythingthathappens.com.
The album was previewed with a free download, the uptempo, electronics-shaded "Strange Overtones," which finds Byrne waxing poetic about the art of songwriting: "your song still needs a chorus / I know you'll figure it out / the rising of the verses / a change of key will let you out."
Among the contributors are drummer Seb Rochford and multi-instrumentalist Leo Abrahams, a longtime Eno collaborator. Says Abrahams, "[David's] such an eccentric singer and the gaps between verses are often filled with joyful little 'whoop's and interjections, and sometimes the unmistakable honks of a New York taxi, which magically always seem to end just in time for when the singing starts."
Byrne is planning a six-month tour celebrating his work with the Talking Heads and in collaboration with Eno, beginning Sept. 16 in Bethlehem, Pa.
The album was previewed with a free download, the uptempo, electronics-shaded "Strange Overtones," which finds Byrne waxing poetic about the art of songwriting: "your song still needs a chorus / I know you'll figure it out / the rising of the verses / a change of key will let you out."
Among the contributors are drummer Seb Rochford and multi-instrumentalist Leo Abrahams, a longtime Eno collaborator. Says Abrahams, "[David's] such an eccentric singer and the gaps between verses are often filled with joyful little 'whoop's and interjections, and sometimes the unmistakable honks of a New York taxi, which magically always seem to end just in time for when the singing starts."
Byrne is planning a six-month tour celebrating his work with the Talking Heads and in collaboration with Eno, beginning Sept. 16 in Bethlehem, Pa.
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