Author: Byrne, David

Format: Import

Release Date: 02-09-2003

Details: Product Description Special limited edtion packaging for the initial run only. Get your order in quick to secure your fill. Amazon.ca Former Talking Heads vocalist Byrne says he wanted Looking into the Eyeball, his first album since 1997's Feelings, to make people "dance and cry" while not being "pretentious art pop". Thankfully, Look Into The Eyeball transcends its duff name and convincingly achieves these twin aims. Byrne has often been accused over the years of a cerebral estrangement from his music, an arty aloofness, but here he patently engages fully with the timbre and flow of these frequently luscious tunes. The exotic, semi-salsa rhythms of the likes of "The Moment Of Conception" and "Desconcido Soy", which he sings in Spanish, recall Byrne's ethnic/world music experimentations of the late 1980s which informed the Rei Momo album. "On Like Humans Do" and "Neighborhood" he's once again the arch existentialist, one eyebrow firmly raised in the midst of musical abandonment. Yet the album's standout track is the one that spawns its title; the fatalistic, tragic-comic "The Great Intoxication", all-shrugging half-beats and warm, humane insights. Look Into The Eyeball is a funny, sharp, self-aware album, and a fantastic return by a major and valued figure. -- Ian Gittins

UPC: 724385092428

EAN: 0724385092428

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New