Here Lies Love, the David Byrne / Fatboy Slim album on the life of Imelda Marcos, was released last week; this evening, Byrne will sign copies at the MoMA Store in New York. The New York Times's Jon Pareles adds the album to his Playlist, citing "the limber, catchy music" and its "irrepressible pop choruses." Time says the album puts "a winning twist on the 'album musical' tradition." The New York Post calls the collaboration "a fine marriage."
Here Lies Love, the David Byrne / Fatboy Slim collaboration detailing the life of Imelda Marcos, was released last week on Todomundo / Nonesuch Records. To mark the occasion, Byrne will appear at the MoMA Design and Book Store at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City this evening at 5 PM to sign copies of the album purchased there. For details, visit moma.org. For those of you outside of New York or unable to make the event, Here Lies Love is available in the Nonesuch Store with instant downloads at no additional cost.
New York Times music critic Jon Pareles includes the album in his Playlist, citing "the limber, catchy music and the sheer nuttiness of the whole project." Pareles says the music of Here Lies Love "revisits 1970s and early-1980s styles, drawing on early, barely electronic disco ... and the funk, Afro-Latin and Brazilian grooves of Mr. Byrne’s later Talking Heads albums." And while there is much to say in the story the songs tell, of Marcos's early life and her rise to power, they nonetheless "breeze along toward irrepressible pop choruses." Read more at nytimes.com.
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Time magazine's Douglas Wolk says the album puts "a winning twist on the 'album musical' tradition." Referencing Marcos's love of disco, which Byrne documents in the deluxe edition's 120-page book, Wolk suggests: "Some of the highlights of Here Lies Love echo the records Imelda might have danced to at New York discotheques a few decades earlier." Citing two album tracks in particular, he says, "'Ladies in Blue,' a tribute to the pill-popping entourage that surrounded the 'Iron Butterfly,' as she was known, recalls the cooing stomp of ABBA; Kate Pierson of the B-52s belts 'The Whole Man' as if it's one of her own hits." You'll find the article at time.com.
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The New York Post gives Here Lies Love three-and-a-half stars. "Byrne's unlikely partnership with Fatboy Slim turns out to be a fine marriage," says reviewer Dan Aquilante. "Slim is razor sharp at placing proper beats in the music to recall the late-night '70s New York club scene (of which Marcos was a regular during visits to NYC)." Read more at nypost.com.
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