As he continues to wind around the country with his high-concept live show, David Byrne has shared “T-Shirt,” a new studio single. The Talking Heads frontman’s latest offering follows his ninth solo studio album “Who Is The Sky?”, which arrived to widespread acclaim in September, and has been a setlist staple on the tour supporting his release. David Byrne and Brian Eno Reunite for New Song “T Shirt”:
“Eno co-wrote the song, which Byrne has been playing on his tour behind Who Is the Sky?
It comes with a visualizer featuring a sequence of varyingly heartwarming slogan T-shirts whose messages range from “Make America Gay Again” to “I’m with stupid” and “With a body like this, who needs hair?”
The song follows Byrne’s album “Who Is the Sky?“, released in September. ” it turns Byrne’s quirky introspection outward, yielding curiously insightful musings on human behavior. This time around, he’s turned his critical eye on the slogans printed on graphic t-shirts, gesturing wildly at the absurdity of clothing as a mode of communication. “Look at my shirt, my love,” he sings. “It’s the only way that I can talk to you.”
Sonically, Byrne’s latest is a jittery and infectious pop-funk anthem that’s right at home among the eye-popping shades of idiosyncratic art pop that colour “Who Is The Sky?” In his meticulously choreographed stage show, the artist and his ensemble of jumpsuit-clad dancers and instrumentalists perform the song before a series of common identity graphics, which also rotate in the official music video.
David Byrne has shared a new song that serves as a reunion with Brian Eno. Listen to “T Shirt,” co-written by the pair, out now on Matador Records:
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