David Byrne : Who Is The Sky? (Lemon Yellow Vinyl w folded poster)

David Byrne is proud to announce Who Is the Sky?, his first new album since 2018s acclaimed and award-winning American Utopia, which will be released September 5th by Matador Records. The album was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), while its 12 songs were arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra.

Musical friends old and new, including St. Vincent, Paramores Hayley Williams, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner and American Utopia percussionist Mauro Refosco, also make appearances on Who Is the Sky?, which is led by the infectious single “Everybody Laughs.

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, says Byrne. Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybodys wearing everybody elses shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I