Grown Backwards by David Byrne

Grown Backwards, David Byrne's seventh studio album, arrived through Nonesuch on March 16, 2004, more than a decade after Talking Heads called it quits in 1991. Byrne produced it with Pat Dillett, and the record breathes: open, unhurried arrangements, grooves that loosen their collar, and that nervy voice sounding more at ease than it ever did in the tightly wound Talking Heads days.

Critics were broadly warm, with Metacritic tallying a score of 78, and Byrne later picked through its sales figures himself in his 2010 book How Music Works. The Scottish-born polymath's restless curiosity is all over it, and "Lazy", a slinky, sly groove, is the song that surfaced on the countdowns years later. It finally reached vinyl in 2019.

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