Albums of the week

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David Byrne: American Utopia (Todomundo/Nonesuch)

The songs on American Utopia, David Byrne’s first solo album since 2004’s Grown Backwards, don’t (says their writer) “describe an imaginary or possibly impossible place, but rather attempt to depict the world we live in now. Many of us, I suspect, are not satisfied with that world – the world we have made for ourselves. We look around and we ask ourselves – well, does ...