David Byrne is working on a new solo album

New solo album coming for David Byrne. The former Talking Heads frontman is working on the songs that will compose his first unreleased album in seven years, after “American Utopia” of 2018. It was the American musician Hamilton Leithauser of the Walkmen, the Indie Rock Band among the Reference points of the overseas scene, making it known to be involved in the processing of the ideal successor of “American Utopia”.

Leithauser, who has always declared himself a big fan of the talking heads, said: “I will sing on the album, so I got to know David Byrne and it’s really fantastic. He didn’t disappoint me. When I received the first message from his part I have I thought they were making fun of me. ”

In recent months, byrne, 72 years old, has followed the celebrations related to the forty -year of “Stop Making Sense” from afar, the film of the future Oscar winner Jonathan Demme who in 1983 set the three iconic performances of David Byrne and companions at Pantages Theater on film Hollywood, capturing all the eccentricity for which Talking Heads went down in history as – the copyright is by the sociologist Dick Hebdige – a “postmodern band” and consecrating them as one of the most revolutionary groups of their generation.

The anniversary was celebrated with a discussion with National, Miley Cyrus and Paramore and with the screening of the restored version of the same film at the cinema. On the occasion of the release, the historic guitarist of the band, .jerry Harrison, on Rockol launched an appeal to the same byne: “David, listen to me: we bring together the talking heads. Let’s do it. I think we would have fun”. Appeal that for now the former frontman of the “Psycho Killer” band does not seem to be intent on listening.