David Byrne Releases Who Is the Sky? Deluxe Edition with Four Bonus Tracks: Stream

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David Byrne has released the digital deluxe edition of his latest album, Who Is the Sky?, expanding the record with four bonus tracks. Stream it below. The new additions to Who Is the Sky? are “T Shirt,” “My Madness,” “What and Where,” and “¿Cuál Es La Razón?,” the last of which reimagines “What Is the Reason for It?” with the Mexican Institute of Sound and Natalia Lafourcade. Find David Byrne Tickets In a statement reflecting on how streaming has changed the boundaries of an album, Byrne explained his decision to revisit Who Is the Sky? a year after its original release. “What’s an album? Good question. Vinyl fans and crate diggers have a sense of an album as fixed thing — a set of songs on a physical object — in a specific order that presumably the artist thinks makes for a cohesive listening experience,” he said. “But streaming and downloads turned all that on its head. Albums can be super long, super short, and the songs can change over time. The only consistent thing might be that the songs were composed and recorded around a similar time — so they speak to that time and place, and have some sort of sonic continuity.” Byrne continued, “So here’s my most recent album now expand...

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