David Byrne’s Planet-Wide Panic Disco: Mapping Global Anxiety One Beat at a Time
David Byrne, the perpetually wide-eyed Scot turned New Yorker, has spent four decades turning the planet’s anxiety into dance music. From the fever dreams of Talking Heads to his current collabs with Congolese thumb-piano wizards, Byrne has become the unofficial cartographer of global neurosis—mapping dread, delight, and debt into polyrhythms you can hum while queuing…