1 December 2008 9:06 PM, PST | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news
David Byrne was a young man playing at a mid-life crisis when he first sang "Once In A Lifetime" with Talking Heads, a song from 1980's Remain In Light—the band's third and final collaboration with Brian Eno. Byrne is genuinely middle-aged now, and on Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, his first work with Eno in 27 years, it sounds as if the introspection of "Once In A Lifetime" stopped being an academic exercise a long time ago. "The dimming of the light makes the picture clearer," Byrne sings as the album opens, establishing a sunset glow that shines on much of the album to come. What follows also sounds only a little like what listeners might expect of a renewed Eno/Byrne partnership. Their 1981 album My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts pushed their...
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