Marta Salogni, Jack Sugden and Tuck Nelson – mix engineers. David Wrench – mix and additional programming. Gabriel Schuman - additional engineering (5). Alex Epton, Matt Cohn and Patrick Dillett – recording engineers. David Byrne, Rodaidh McDonald and Patrick Dillett – production. Flynn – "middle 8 section synthesizer" (9) MMPH - main orchestral arrangement and sounds (8). Jam City – synth stabs, guitar and drums (3). Nathan Jenkins – harmonica solo and voices (2). Jaakko Savolainen – guitar, bass and synthesizer (2), keyboards (3). Happa – drum programming (2, 9), electronics and drums (3), synthesizer solo (9). Jack Peñate – keyboards (2, 3, 7), backing vocals (2, 7), textures (2), drums, bass and shaker (3). Alex Epton – drum programming (2, 6, 8), choir programming (2), synthesizer stabs (3), bass (7), cymbals (8), shaker (9). Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) – Mellotron (1, 2, 7, 9), piano (1). Brian Eno – drum programming, vocoder, background vocals and "prog ride tracks" (1), keyboards (6, 8), percussion (6, 9), voice effects, whistling, celeste and brass (6), drums (8), "robot rhythm guitar" (9). Daniel Lopatin – keyboards (4, 5, 8, 10), drums (4, 5, 10), synthesizers and bass (4), processing and textures (8, 9), strings (8). Rodaidh McDonald – arrangements (2–5, 10), (additional) keyboards (1–3, 6, 8, 9), drum programming (2–9), "verse percussion" (1), bells (6), strings (7). Personnel according to David Byrne's homepage. "Everybody's Coming to My House" – 3:29. "This Is That" (Byrne, Daniel Lopatin) – 4:31. Track listing Īll songs written by David Byrne and Brian Eno, except where noted. It was set to return to the Hudson for another limited engagement in September 2020, but this was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.Ī film version of the Broadway play was produced by Spike Lee as a documentary/concert film, released in late 2020, debuting on HBO. The concert premiered at the Hudson Theatre in previews on Octoand officially on October 20, closing on February 16, 2020. In late 2019, Byrne was joined by 11 musicians to perform a modified version of American Utopia that incorporated several hits by Talking Heads into the soundtrack. 3 with the equivalent of 63,000 copies sold in the United States. Commercial reception Īmerican Utopia became Byrne's first top 10 album on the Billboard 200, debuting at No. Club gave the album a B, calling the album an uneven "mixed bag" but praising the album's themes. The Arts Desk's Howard Male gave the album a positive review calling it a "a muscular and quirky return to form". At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 72 based on 32 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". American utopia album review professional#
Reception Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scoresĪmerican Utopia received generally positive reviews from critics.
The title is derived from the Ian Dury song " Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3". The album is part of a larger multimedia project titled Reasons to Be Cheerful which aims to give reasons for being happy and optimistic in spite of political strife and environmental problems. Byrne announced the album and posted its lead single, "Everybody's Coming to My House", online on January 8, 2018. The release is his first solo studio album since 2004's Grown Backwards, and serves as a musical component of a larger multimedia project titled Reasons to Be Cheerful, which attempts to spread positivity. American Utopia is the eighth studio album by Scottish-American rock musician David Byrne, released on Mathrough Todo Mundo and Nonesuch Records.
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