Like a good suit, David Byrne has expanded his latest album, Who Is the Sky?, into a digital deluxe edition. He’s also released a psychedelic video for one of the reissue’s four bonus cuts, the upbeat “My Madness.” A man in a colorful, leonine costume weaves yellowish spirals as Byrne sings, “My madness really likes me now,” among horns, acoustic, guitar, and, eventually strings. In a statement, Byrne ruminated on how the definition of an “album” has expanded from a fixed object to something more malleable in the digital age.
There’s a reconciliation. There’s an old song, ‘T Shirt,’ that we added to our set list with images of statements folks wear on their T Shirts.” The expanded edition also includes “What and Where” and “¿Cuál Es La Razón?,” which Byrne describes as “a wonderful reimagining of ‘What Is the Reason for It,’ created by Mexican Institute of Sound and co-written and sung by Natalia Lafoucade.” The original album version featured Hayley Williams. But I thought, ‘I’m going to put that on the list of album titles.'” The expanded release, which marks a year from the release of the original Who Is the Sky? album, also coincides with the end of Byrne’s tour supporting the album.
He’ll be playing the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, New York on Thursday and Forest Hills Stadium in Queens on Saturday. Along the way, The Brutalist filmmaker Brady Corbet shot Byrne’s multi-night stint at Baltimore’s Hippodrome on 70mm film for an upcoming concert picture. Byrne’s next endeavor is a book, Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up, out Oct. 6.
He writes about how many geniuses — “from Bach to Bruegel, Vermeer to Melville,” as the book’s description says — weren’t recognized in their time. His intention with the book is to help people recognize originality when they see it and not to ignore it. He has set a number of tour dates to support the book.
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