Código:
Artist: David Byrne & Brian Eno
Title: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Label: Todo Mundo
Genre: Alternative
Bitrate: 190kbit av.
Time: 00:46:56
Size: 68.15 mb
Rip Date: 2008-10-22
Str Date: 2008-11-17
1. Home 5:05
2. My Big Nurse 3:19
3. I Feel My Stuff 6:24
4. Everything That Happens 3:43
5. Life Is Long 3:42
6. The River 2:26
7. Strange Overtones 4:16
8. Wanted For Life 5:06
9. One Fine Day 4:53
10. Poor Boy 4:16
11. The Lighthouse 3:46
Release Notes:
David Byrne and Brian Eno retreated to pop's periphery years
ago, but their influence is suddenly front and center. There
are echoes of Byrne's old band, Talking Heads, in the
avant-funk of LCD Soundsystem and other dance-rock bands, and
you can hear the singer's workaday hysteria in the cadences of
Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock.
Coldplay sought producer Eno to help them make Viva la Vida, a
record that recalls another album with Eno's mark, U2's The
Joshua Tree. You can also hear Byrne and Eno's world-music
fusions reflected in polyglot indie bands like Vampire
Weekend.
With their new album, Everything That Happens Will Happen
Today, the pair rejoin the rock conversation as if they'd
never left. The last record Byrne and Eno made together was
the groundbreaking 1981 dance-rock tape collage project, My
Life in the Bush of Ghosts, but the duo go back further ¨
Everything recalls the three Talking Heads records that Eno
produced, played on and/or wrote: 1978's More Songs About
Buildings and Food, 1979's Fear of Music and 1980's Remain in
Light. For those records, Eno was essentially a band member,
bringing a darker, more layered and atmospheric sound to the
group.
Everything sounds more like a Heads record than anything
Byrne's done since the band split in 1991. A radiantly tuneful
set made with sidemen, from agile, young polymath drummer Seb
Rochford to Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, the album often
evokes sublime, slow-to-midtempo Heads songs like "Heaven" and
"This Must Be the Place (Na¦ve Melody)," as well as dreamy Eno
songs like "St. Elmo's Fire" and "I'll Come Running." The
album was created with a fairly strict division of labor.
Byrne wrote the words and sang lead. And Eno made the music,
bringing an effervescent sonic gloom that adds some mystery
and tension to Byrne's plainspoken lyrics ¨ qualities missing
from much of Byrne's solo work. "Poor Boy," for instance,
sounds like a Bush of Ghosts outtake, all percolating bass
bubbles, clattering percussion and spooky vocal samples.
Byrne's words set a scene that would have appeared innocuous
in 1981 but feels oddly menacing in 2008: "A truck parked this
morning outside the grocery store."
Byrne has described the music as "folk electronic gospel,"
openly wondering at the songs' uplifting tone ("The Bush era
was not a particularly hopeful time for many of us," he writes
in the album notes, "so where did all this exuberance and hope
come from?"). And Eno has credited his ongoing interest in
gospel to hearing "Surrender to His Will," by Reverend Maceo
Woods and the Christian Tabernacle Choir, way back when he was
working with Talking Heads on More Songs About Buildings and
Food. But this is a secular, practical sort of gospel. The
opener, "Home," finds the singer longing for a nest, even if
it's one with "neighbors fighting" and "cameras watching."
Beautifully harmonized by both men over a vigorous
acoustic-guitar strum with a soaring Joshua Tree-style solo,
it finds beauty and fleeting peace in spite of the ugliness.
On "Everything That Happens," Byrne coos over a morphine-drip
soundscape about riding "on a perfect freeway" and savoring
"the sound of someone laughing," when suddenly he sees a car
explode. "Strange Overtones" is wistful dance-floor nostalgia,
with a groove that recalls George McCrae's 1974 hit "Rock Your
Baby." "My Big Nurse" is a gentle country tune with a narrator
who's obsessed with dancing "on this lazy afternoon" amid
fellow humans who are "in love with war."
Ultimately, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is about
how music heals even if it can't cure. On "The River," amid
clapboard-church vocal harmonies, Byrne declares, "A change is
gonna come/Like Sam Cooke sang in '63." Maybe it will. But
what seems important here is the collective hope for it,
channeled in song by a couple of old visionaries whose music
should continue to inspire young bands and the rest of us. 
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008)
