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David Byrne: American Utopia

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On March 9, 2018, “Todo Mundo” and “Nonesuch” labels released “American Utopia”, the tenth David Byrne studio album. It was recorded in 2017 at “DB Spare Bedroom”, “Reservoir Studios”, “Oscilloscope”, “XL Studios” and “Crowdspacer Studio” in New York City, “Livingston Studio” in London, and was produced by David Byrne, Pat Dillett, Brian Eno and Rodaidh McDonald.

Personnel:

  • David Byrne – vocals, guitar, keyboards, pads
  • Brian Eno – vocoder, keyboards, voice effects, whistling, celeste, brass; drums, percussion, robot rhythm guitar, drum programming, backing vocals
  • Jam City – guitar, synth stabs, drums
  • Magnus Bang Olsen – piano
  • Sampha – piano
  • Daniel Lopatin – keyboards, drums, synthesizers, bass, processing, textures, strings
  • Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) – mellotron, piano
  • Nathan Jenkins – voices, harmonica
  • Rodaidh McDonald – additional keyboards, drum programming, verse percussion, bells, strings, arrangements
  • Alex Epton – drum programming; choir programming, synthesizer stabs, bass guitar, cymbals; shaker
  • Jaakko Savolainen – guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, keyboards
  • Ben Anderson – cymbal
  • Jamie Edwards – sitar samples
  • Ethan P. Flynn – middle 8 section synthesizer
  • Happa – drum programming, electronics, drums, synthesizer
  • Jack Peñate – keyboards, textures; drums, bass, shaker, backing vocals
  • Ariel Rechtshaid – flexatone
  • Ben Reed – live bass
  • Brian Wolfe – drums
  • Airhead – drums
  • Koreless – drums
  • Mauro Refosco – percussion
  • Joey Waronker – tom, snare
  • Isaiah Barr – saxophone
  • Joe Williams – harp
  • MMPH – orchestral arrangements, sounds
  • Matt Cohn – recording
  • Alex Epton – recording
  • Gabriel Schuman – additional engineering
  • Tuck Nelson – mixing
  • Marta Salogni – mixing
  • Jack Sugden – mixing
  • David Wrench – mixing, additional programming
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Purvis Young – cover art

Track listing:

All tracks by David Byrne and Brian Eno, except where noted.

  1. I Dance Like This
  2. Gasoline and Dirty Sheets
  3. Every Day Is a Miracle
  4. Dog’s Mind
  5. This Is That – David Byrne, Daniel Lopatin
  6. It’s Not Dark Up Here
  7. Bullet
  8. Doing the Right Thing
  9. Everybody’s Coming to My House
  10. Here – David Byrne, Daniel Lopatin