Thursday, June 14th 2012
News: David Byrne, St. Vincent
St. Vincent & David Byrne Collaborate on ‘Love This Giant’
Perhaps no one saw this coming, but it seems natural to see two great pop minds such as these working together. David Byrne & St. Vincent have just announced a collaborative album, entitled Love This Giant, which had been in the works for almost three years. It is set to be released on September 11th, and followed by a tour.
Not to let anyone holding their breaths, the duo’s first song has already been made available for a free download. Grab the track Who below:
Mr. Byrne had the following to say about the release: “Annie suggested we use a brass band rather than the typical rock ensemble—which would brilliantly solve the sound problems inherent in performing in a small joint like Housing Works. [...] I loved this idea and suggested we write some tunes based on this brass concept, just a few to see if we could actually work together and to see if we both liked the results. That was a few years ago. The writing was truly collaborative: sometimes Annie would send me some synthesized versions of brass or guitar riffs and I would arrange them a bit and write a tune and words over them; other times this process would be reversed and I would send some musical ideas to Annie for her to write over. [...] It was an education that involved figuring out the variety of sounds and approaches one could come up with using more or less the same group makeup on every song—we could go funky or majestic with the exact same band. [...] A lot of people, hearing a description of this project, assumed that it might be an artsy indulgence, but somehow it didn’t turn out that way. It’s a pop record—well, in my book anyway. I started to sense that we were ending up with a sound and approach I’d never heard before.”
Love This Giant‘s tracklist can be found below:
01 “Who”
02 “Weekend In The Dust”
03 “Dinner For Two”
04 “Ice Age”
05 “I Am An Ape”
06 “The Forest Awakes”
07 “I Should Watch TV”
08 “Lazarus”
09 “Optimist”
10 “Lightning”
11 “The One Who Broke Your Heart” (Feat. The Dap-Kings & Antibalas)
12 “Outside Of Space & Time”
And the tour dates are as follows:
09/15 – Minneapolis, MN @ State Theater
09/16 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater
09/18 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
09/20 – Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
09/21 – Montreal, QC @ POP Montreal
09/23 – Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
09/25-26 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theater
09/27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Tower Theater
09/29 – Brooklyn, NY @ Williamsburg Park
09/30 – Bethesda MD @ The Music Center At Strathmore
10/02 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
10/03 – Atlanta, GA @ Cobb Energy Center
10/05 – Austin, TX @ Bass Concert Hall
10/06 – Houston, TX @ Hobby Center
10/07 – Dallas, TX @ McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
10/10 – San Diego, CA @ Humphrey’s
10/11 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Arlington Theatre
10/12 – Costa Mesa, CA @ Segerstrom Theater for the Arts
10/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theater
10/15 – San Francisco, CA @ Orpheum Theatre
10/17 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
10/18 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Auditorium
10/20 – Vancouver, BC @ Centre in Vancouver For The Performing Arts
