David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant Tour 2013 from St. Vincent on Vimeo.
Last year St. Vincent’s Annie Clark and David Byrne put out their fantastic collaborative album Love This Giant, and have been busy touring and making appearances in support of the record ever since. The duo will once again hit the road together this summer, and in celebration of their upcoming tour, they’ve released a 5 song EP which fans can download for free. Brass Tactics features a previously unreleased Love This Giant bonus track, two remixes, and two live songs (St. Vincent’s “Marrow” and the Talking Heads’ “Road to Nowhere”). Watch a video the two made about their summer tour above and grab a copy of their EP via the widget below.
After the release of Love This Giant last year, we did a tour of North America and Australia that was like nothing we’ve ever done before—drums, keys and Annie and I supported by 8 choreographed brass players. We did the new material, but also a lot of recognizable songs, arranged for that group. The sound is incredible, and it’s a bit of a visual spectacle as well. We were pretty excited at how it turned out. The critical and audience response was great too! Touring a group that size with a fairly complex show is a big financial gulp, so it has taken us a while to collect enough offers in North America and Europe, but ow they are in and we kick off in a few weeks.
One of our business folks had the idea that we might offer a taste of what we’re up to—so we put together an EP to give folks a taste of what to expect. It has one song that didn’t make it on the record (a waltz featuring some lovely glass harmonica), a couple of energized remixes of some of the album tunes and two live tracks of the sort of more familiar material we do in the set. Did we say it’s FREE? We’re very excited at how this whole project came out so we want more folks to discover it. Download it below!
