Channelling the irrepressible buoyancy of Echoes – with The Rapture then channelling, in turn, altogether more seminal records such as Naked, of course – David Byrne’s Everybody’s Coming to My House perhaps unexpectedly makes for an even more jubilant listening experience than Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo banging out the likes of Around the World round James Murphy’s gaff. For similarly reminiscent of the onetime Talking Head’s brassy collaborations with one Annie Clark, the song – the first to surface from his forthcoming American Utopia full-length – is both upbeat and beatific, restive guitars and rakish bass meeting with ample sax appeal. And as Byrne confirms, with utmost confidence, that “everybody’s comin’ to my house/ And they’re never gonna go back home,” he may yet prove the host with the most unanticipatedly accommodating release of 2018…
American Utopia is available from March 9th via Todomundo / Nonesuch Records.