David Byrne announces world tour and his long-awaited solo album 'Who Is the Sky?'

Fans of Talking Heads and David Byrne tin rejoice, arsenic the 73-year-old vocalist announced his archetypal caller medium successful 7 years and tour.

The medium “Who Is the Sky?” volition deed streaming services and shelves connected Sept. 5. Soon after, Byrne volition footwear disconnected the North American limb of his tour, which features 2 shows successful November astatine the Dolby Theatre successful Los Angeles. In 2026, he’ll interaction down successful New Zealand earlier moving connected to Australia and Europe.

The 12-song medium is led by the azygous “Everybody Laughs,” released Tuesday alongside a euphony video directed by multimedia creator Gabriel Barcia-Colombo.

“Someone I cognize said, ‘David, you usage the connection “everybody” a lot.’ I accidental I bash that to springiness an anthropological presumption of beingness successful New York arsenic we cognize it,” Byrne said successful a property release.

“Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares astatine the ceiling. Everybody’s wearing everybody else’s shoes, which not everybody does, but I person done. I tried to sing astir these things that could beryllium seen arsenic antagonistic successful a mode balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, particularly astatine the end, erstwhile St. Vincent and I are doing a batch of hollering and singing together,” helium added. “Music tin bash that — clasp opposites simultaneously.”

New York-based ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra arranged the album. It besides includes collaborations with the aforementioned St. Vincent, Hayley Williams, and the Smile drummer Tom Skinner. Byrne’s past medium was 2018’s “American Utopia,” which yet took the Broadway signifier and successful 2020 became a performance movie directed by Spike Lee.

But it wasn’t a Byrne circuit that fans were expecting.

Talking Heads, for which Byrne served arsenic pb vocalist betwixt 1975 and 1991, released a teaser connected June 2, including their opus “Psycho Killer.” Some adjacent noticed that the day included successful the abbreviated clip, June 5, is an important 1 successful the band’s history.

“The set played their archetypal gig arsenic Talking Heads — opening for the Ramones astatine the CBGB nine — connected June 5, 1975,” 1 instrumentality commented.

Instead of a circuit announcement, fans received a euphony video for the song, highlighted by the quality of Irish histrion Saoirse Ronan.

“They waited until Saoirse Ronan was calved to marque the video,” different instrumentality joked. “Very professional.”