One of the things I like doing when sitting at home with nothing to do is to randomly search the Bandcamp artist listings to see if there is anything good that catches my eye (seldom there is, however). Much to my surprise, on my most recent scavenger hunt I spotted a very familiar thumbnail image of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s upcoming collaborative album Here Lies Love tucked away in the directory listing.
The three track sampler features the already released and widely circulated Santigold-contributing song “Please Don’t” as well as two other tracks which I haven’t seen anywhere outside of filesharing sites.
The first is a standard country track entitled “A Perfect Hand” featuring the legendary singer-songwriter Steve Earle. Opening with the lyrics “They’re occupying our country / we were almost overrun / I knew if I did not react / they’d kill us, everyone”, the song could double as a Tea Party rallying cry, overshadowing the intended depiction of the life and times of Imelda Marcos — the wife of the Philippines’ former dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The track is a stadium-ready jam that is very fitting for the hardcore troubadour. “Dancing Together”, the second “new” song on the sampler (and arguably my favorite), is a disco-funk track featuring the soulful sound of Sharon Jones.
You can stream the full tracks from the collab’s bandcamp page and you can also hear 30 second iTunes-ready snippets of each song from the album’s official site. As for the record itself, it drops April 6th on Todomundo/Nonesuch Records.
