David Byrne used to be the singer of the . With this group he made fantastic records such as (1980) and (1984). However, he was also involved in solo projects from an early age. In 1981 he made the album together with . After the Talking Heads split up, he was fed up with Western pop music and shifted his horizons to Brazil. He recorded a few more solo albums with South American artists and
… started his own record label ( ). In recent years, a lot of world music has appeared on this label and for a long time the question was whether a pop album by David Byrne would ever be released. The affirmative answer to that question is Look Into The Eyeball. It is undeniably Byrne's best solo record to date. It has become a perfect mix between pop and world music, interspersed with beautiful string arrangements. In terms of sound, the album comes closest to the Talking Heads at the time of . Highlights are The Great Intoxication, Like Humans Do, UB Jesus and the Spanish-language Desconocido Soy. (MvP)more