Sitting in his New York office and starting on a bowl of soup, David Byrne is ready to hit the road behind Grown Backwards, an album that spans the musical map and contains two arias to boot. While the title comes from a Flannery O'Connor book, it could also describe the new approach he took to making the album.
"I didn't get through all the tapes I used," Byrne says of his "top-down" method of creating the tracks. "If I had a lot of ideas I would just hum them in the (micro-recorder) and immediately take it out and dump it in the pile. And then it ends up being this big pile of little tiny cassettes. There's still a pile on my desk and I'm like, 'Gee, I wonder what's on the rest of it?' I don't know what to expect on any of them."
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