David Byrne, the musician, performer, writer, multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of Talking Heads, releases a deluxe digital edition of his latest album Who Is The Sky? The deluxe, which commemorates the one year anniversary of the release, features four bonus tracks, including new single ‘My Madness’.

This Saturday at the iconic Forest Hills Stadium in NYC, David will wrap his highly celebrated Who Is The Sky? World Tour. The tour featured two nights at Hollywood Bowl, headline festival appearances at Coachella, Latitude and others.

 Last month, Byrne announced that he would bring his world tour to the big screen. Filmed over multiple nights at the famed Hippodrome in Byrne’s hometown of Baltimore, the film captures the production that has played to audiences for over 150 shows across four continents. It was shot on 70mm by Brady Corbet, director of the Academy Award-winning film The Brutalist. 

David Byrne’s new book Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up is scheduled for release on October 6, 2026 in North America by Penguin Press, and on October 8, 2026 in the UK (with a UK hardcover release by Canongate on November 2, 2026).

David Byrne on the Expanded Edition:

“What’s an album?

Good question. Vinyl fans and crate diggers have a sense of an album as fixed thing- a set of songs on a physical object- in a specific order that presumably the artist thinks makes for a cohesive listening experience.

But streaming and downloads turned all that on its head. Albums can be super long, super short, and the songs can change over time. The only consistent thing might be that the songs were composed and recorded around a similar time- so they speak to that time and place, and have some sort of sonic continuity.

 So here’s my most recent album now expanded with 2 songs that were cut, not because they weren’t good (I hope) but to give the initial album a nice variety of grooves and subjects. My Madness- this is one of my personal favorites- the singer imagines their “madness” as a separate entity from themselves, one that they come to love, understand and respect. There’s a reconciliation. There’s an old song (T Shirt) that we added to our set list with images of statements folks wear on their T Shirts. And a wonderful reimagining of What is The Reasons for It created by Mexican Institute of Sound and co-written and sung by Natalia Lafoucade.“

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