Sure, it’s been 27 years since two of music’s great pioneers put their heads together for a ground-breaking album, but hey, they’ve both been busy. Legendary producer Brian Eno and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne have completed work on a new album called Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, and following in the footsteps of Radiohead, they’ll be self-releasing it online at EverythingThatHappens.com. You’ll be able to stream it free or buy the downloads starting August 18, but a preview track will be available for free on August 4.
The web site currently features a brief note from Byrne, revealing that he was the songwriter and lyricist while Eno did the music. In an interview, Eno calls the new material “electronic gospel,” which could be good or bad, really, but doesn’t sound much like their last album together. Their 1980 effort, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, fused quirky samples with wildly diverse rhythms, a pop-culture/electro/world-beat mish-mash that was way ahead of its time. In fact, I’m not sure we’ve even caught up yet: M.I.A.’s 2007 album Kala basically follows the same formula and it still seems utterly groundbreaking.
After the jump, check out “America is Waiting,” the first track from Bush of Ghosts, which loops talk-radio samples over a rolling, Cabaret Voltaire-style beat.
