The elaborate concert featured an empty stage surrounded by metal chains and a cast of twelve musicians, including Byrne himself, sporting bare feet and wearing identical gray suits. The release of the album was backed by the American Utopia Tour, that lasted from March to November 2018. 3 with the equivalent of 63,000 copies sold in the United States. Commercial reception Īmerican Utopia became Byrne's first top 10 album on the Billboard 200, debuting at No. Club gave the album a B, calling the album an uneven "mixed bag" but praising the album's themes. The Arts Desk's Howard Male gave the album a positive review calling it a "a muscular and quirky return to form". At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 72 based on 32 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Reception Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scoresĪmerican Utopia received generally positive reviews from critics. The title is derived from the Ian Dury song " Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3". The album is part of a larger multimedia project titled Reasons to Be Cheerful which aims to give reasons for being happy and optimistic in spite of political strife and environmental problems. Byrne announced the album and posted its lead single, "Everybody's Coming to My House", online on January 8, 2018. The release is his first solo studio album since 2004's Grown Backwards, and serves as a musical component of a larger multimedia project titled Reasons to Be Cheerful, which attempts to spread positivity. American Utopia is the eighth studio album by Scottish-American rock musician David Byrne, released on Mathrough Todo Mundo and Nonesuch Records.
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