David Byrne News: New David Byrne & Fatboy Slim (Feat. Santigold) - Please Don't

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Here lies the first listen from Here Lies Love, the weirdo concept album about Imelda Marcos, the shoe-obsessed widow of the Philippines' former dictator. It comes courtesy of everyone's favorite dignified oddball/indie rock renaissance man David Byrne, in collaboration with Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim. The two teamed up on Cook's last collab-heavy project the BPA, and in that vein have corralled a different vocalist for each track. "Please Don't" is the set's first MP3, humid funk formed from clavinets, synth, whistles, and percussion, fronted by Santigold, indulging Imelda's neuroses and namedropping Kissinger, Reagan, and Nixon. Says...