…The digital deluxe edition includes four new bonus tracks.
Such is the diversity of David Byrne’s projects since Talking Heads’ split in 1991, it can feel like no possible new endeavour is too far-fetched. Now that American Utopia and Here Lies Love have finished their runs, maybe it’s time for a Broadway musical about the turbulent childhood of Tristan Tzara? Or else an art photography book of textile factories in South Carolina? And surely there’s an album of New Orleans bounce to be made with Diplo and Big Freedia, and possibly a weekly column of recipes for the New York Times?
The fact that none of these options seem particularly outlandish makes the relatively straightforward nature of his latest…
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While 
Communication often has multiple angles: at the beginning of Is affect real?, the third song on 
“My Lost One”, Materia’s second track, is remarkable. Exemplifying the Julia Holter ethos to the max, it begins wispily with interweaving rippling electric piano figures, a whispered, echoey vocal and slippery acoustic bass. Gradually, grandeur is assumed: a sonic architecture soaring into and beyond the clouds, and outwards into the wider cosmos.
Released via Transgressive Records, Sparks Live On the Moon, the band’s first full live album, captures Sparks at the very peak of their live powers. The 20-track album recorded at the end of their 2025 tour, in the moon’s Taruntius Crater, comes complete with an introduction and closing narration by Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett.
Sometimes, all you need is a change. When 
Listening to 
With his playful, nature-bound alter ego, 
In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, American mythologist Joseph Campbell uses tales from antiquity to chart the “Hero’s Journey,” the cyclical sequence of departure, initiation, and return which serves as the basis for mythic narrative. While this may ring true in the world of fables, practically speaking, I’ve always found personal journeys to resemble curves rather than circles; soft arcs of change that bend imperceptibly, but eventually, toward resolution. Oakland recording artist 
Isn’t the world gorgeous through 