David Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra: Everybody Laughs
This buoyant track will open David Byrne's upcoming album
Who Is The Sky? It's due in September and features many collaborators, including St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, The Smile’s Tom Skinner, and New York ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. "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,” Byrne says in a press release. “Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps ... I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way, balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that—hold opposites simultaneously."
Now a trio since the departure of bassist Max Oleartchik, the Brooklyn-based group recruited a bunch of collaborators to record their upcoming album,
Double Infinity. We're told they set up New York’s famed Power Station studio and recorded live with minimal overdubs, playing for nine hours a day as they improvised arrangements. The LP is due in September, and this track will be the album opener. Adrianne Lenker's conversational lyrics describe personal reflections on time and aging during a road trip.
We felt the need to put another track from
Better Dreaming into our New Music Bin as "How Big Is The Rainbow" settles back in our giant playlist.
One reviewer called this one "a funky soul-inspired piece with a bass that can motivate some serious air guitar playing."
Goose: Your Direction
The current lineup of the Connecticut-based jam band - Rick Mitarotonda (guitar), Peter Anspach (keys/guitar), Trevor Weekz (bass) and Cotter Ellis (drums) - recently released its fourth studio album.
Glide Magazine writes that "Unlike the previous genre-bending
Dripfield LP that saw the band making a concerted effort to adopt a more indie pop sound,
Everything Must Go embraces the group’s jam band roots." The review says this track is an "album highlight thanks to a strong Fleetwood Mac influence and breezy West Coast vibes."
This song from her new album,
Flying With Angels, has a very different sound from anything else in Vega's discography. It has a 70s funky R&B sound, complete with background singers supplying "yeah yeah yeahs." The lyric seems to come from a desire to give love, rather than steal it. The narrator is "Loving everybody these days / Like it's some kind of craze."
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