David Byrne's first album since the American Utopia tour and Spike Lee film features orchestral arrangements and guests including St Vincent and Hayley Williams. Two released tracks, She Explains Things To Me and Everybody Laughs, are sweetly sunny and acoustic-guitar driven. The accompanying tour will blend visual art, storytelling and music and will reach Europe next year. Saint Etienne conclude 25 years of leftfield pop with International as their final release, featuring collaborators from DJ Erol Alkan to Nick Heyward. Jade Thirlwall's solo work includes the tempo-shifting, Puppet On a String-sampling Angel of My Dreams. Rebecca Taylor's Self Esteem album A Complicated Woman has been supported by high-concept, tightly choreographed live shows.
For Byrne's first album since his hugely acclaimed American Utopia tour and the subsequent Spike Lee-directed film he's working with an orchestra, as well as St Vincent and Paramore singer Hayley Williams, among others. The two tracks released so far, She Explains Things To Me and Everybody Laughs, have proved to be sweetly sunny and driven by acoustic guitar. The accompanying tour due to reach Europe next year will apparently blend visual art, storytelling and music into one compelling live performance.
Saint Etienne have been an endlessly fascinating fixture on the leftfield of pop for 25 years, spawning everything from Top 10 singles to documentaries about the Lea Valley and the South Bank. Their most recent albums I've Been Trying To Tell You and The Night have delved into concept-driven ambient experimental territory with hugely rewarding results, but International is to be their final release.
Jade Thirlwall's former band Little Mix made a clutch of great hits but nothing that could prepare you for the deeply idiosyncratic charms of Thirwall's tempo-shifting Puppet On a String-sampling Angel of My Dreams. If subsequent releases haven't quite bent the rules in such a striking manner, then they've certainly been of an impressively high quality, pushing her debut solo album into the eagerly awaited category.
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