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Hear All of St. Vincent-David Byrne's 'Love This Giant' on NPR


by Jerome Weeks 4 Sep 2012 10:18 AM

The twosome’s coming to McFarlin in October, the album’s coming next week, but you can hear it all on NPR.

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Over the weekend, NPR’s First Listen put up the entire album-collaboration between Talking Head David Byrne and Dallas’ own Annie Clark — Love This Giant drops Sept. 11 on the Todo Mundo label, but you can pre-order here. Anyone who has been listening obsessively to St. Vincent’s “Marrow”  — like at the KXT Summer Cut in June, where she crowd-surfed while playing guitar — has heard the Heads influence, so this combo is a natural. It’s been much-anticipated since word first came out on  their collaboration.  And it’s a combo you’ll be able to catch live this October 7 at McFarlin Auditorium.

In fact, Love This Giant is the liveliest, tightest-best Byrne has sounded in a long time (NPR’s Stephen Thompson agrees), while numbers like “Ice Age” excitingly echo the stutter-percussion propulsion of “Marrow.”And then, there’s the horn section.

Enjoy all the tracks here.

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