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	David Byrne: Grown Backwards: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Grown Backwards, as the title suggests, skips whistling into maturity, and employs this concept as its thematic core.
		If you hold the cover of Grown Backwards before your face at the precise angle, twisting your head to the right slightly, the mirrored finish of its packaging superimposes your visage over David Byrne's remarkably unchanged face.
		As Grown Backwards proves, records need not rely on either for thrills.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/b/byrne_david/grown-backwards.shtml (1012 words)

	David Byrne: Grown Backwards - PopMatters Music Review
		Indeed, Grown Backwards is not without its flaws, from songs that sound more like a soundtrack than something that deserves full attention to lyrics that seem like holdovers from a persona Byrne has been well-served in at least partially shedding.
		That stinks up its corners of Grown Backwards like it did to Look into the Eyeball, but only a couple of songs suffer heavily for it, namely "Dialog Box" and "Civilization", both of which at least prepared the listener for his or her immanent groan with their titles.
		Grown Backwards is not a record about 9/11, he insists, but it was affected by a local catastrophe and two wars he didn't believe in.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/byrnedavid-grown.shtml (1040 words)

	Cokemachineglow.com - David Byrne: Grown Backwards
		On Grown Backwards, Byrne’s most recent solo effort after the soundtrack Lead Us Not Into Temptation (2003), there is a spirited appeal to what can only be described as the work of a man whose future seems indelibly mired in the esoteric diddlings of the past.
		His willingness to paste his predictably boyish face all over the reflective surface of Backwards’ packaging is a meditation on the rigors of time in and of itself.
		Backwards does begin to lose its pace with its fourth track, the nationalistic ballad “Empire.” One can assume Byrne is toying with patriotic and imperialist parody, but the layers of strings and organs slip too much into adult-contemporary, Bacharach territory to connote the snark Dave might be attempting.
	www.cokemachineglow.com /reviews/byrne_growing2004.html (776 words)

	David Byrne, Backward and Forward (washingtonpost.com)
		For someone who has long reveled in the richness of funk, African and Latin rhythms, "Grown Backwards" is the least percussive of Byrne's albums.
		Some critics have called "Grown Backwards" and "Look Into the Eyeball" the most personal and "heartfelt" albums of his career, as if such qualities were previously absent.
		David Byrne's album "Grown Backwards" is his least percussive, but there are strings attached: The Tosca Strings quartet joins him on the CD.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A60407-2004May27.html (1548 words)

	IGN: Grown Backwards Review
		While the most upbeat number on the entire album, it doesn't feel at all out of place, but rather presents itself as a fitting end to an engaging endeavor.
		Grown Backwards isn't for everybody, that's for sure.
		But those who have enjoyed the many incarnations of Byrne over the years and those adventurous souls who are looking for well-crafted, intelligent post-millennial pop music, will definitely find something worthy tucked in amongst the 15 tracks included here.
	music.ign.com /articles/503/503370p1.html (734 words)

	DavidByrne.com - Grown Backwards reviews
		David Byrne's "Grown Backward" blurs the line between rational and absurd by melding delightfully confusing lyrics with an unlikely orchestral backing...
		With Grown Backwards, he has made a CD about how eloquent Texans are...
		David Byrne says he recorded his new CD "Grown Backwards" (Nonesuch) from the "top down," starting with the melodies that he hummed into a microcassette recorder.
	www.davidbyrne.com /music/cds/grown_backwards/grown_reviews.php (585 words)

	Amazon.ca: Grown Backwards: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As with many of the prolific artist's releases, the record could be trimmed by five or six songs, but fans have grown accustomed to these aberrations -- which are still of higher quality that many in the industry -- and are willing to either let them go or let them grow.
		But for the fans of David Byrne solo-era, "Grown Backwards" is a delight, and perhaps his most consistent solo album to date.
		"Grown Backwards" (15 tracks, 58 min.) is a strange mix of mix of ecclectic mix of salsa and...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001D3KNK (1475 words)

	Amazon.com: Grown Backwards: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Like recent works by Elvis Costello and David Bowie, Grown Backwards represents a return to form, particularly on leftfield songs like "Tiny Apocalypse" and "Dialog Box," which could have easily fit alongside the classics on his former band's retrospective.
		"Grown Backwards" should not only further engage his drooling and virulent fans, but add numbers to his scattered flocks of followers.
		Accordingly, 'Grown Backwards' is the most polished and mature work Byrne has yet put forth, and it's also the blandest.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001D3KNK?v=glance (2124 words)

	JS Online: Byrne's plunges ahead with foray into opera on 'Grown Backwards'
		Even his new record company was suspicious when Byrne submitted a disc that includes a piece from "La Traviata," sung in Latin, and a duet with Rufus Wainwright on a Georges Bizet piece sung in French.
		Yet the tracks are oddly compelling, and they play a key role in "Grown Backwards," Byrne's most melodic and accessible solo album.
		While at its heart a pop record, two aspects of "Grown Backwards" are unique for Byrne: the central role of strings and downplaying of rhythm.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/mar04/217238.asp?format=print (608 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / CD reviews / David Byrne: Grown Backwards
		His intent, seemingly, isn't to garner the respect that other rock stars seek when they go to ultra-violins, but to strike a more languid and sometimes mournful pose at life's absurdities, which here include slaps at right-wing social Darwinism ("Empire") along with musings about bobo and corporate conformity ("Civilization").
		"Grown Backwards" begins with "Glass, Concrete and Stone," the great song of literal and metaphysical immigration from "Dirty Pretty Things," before losing steam with the Lambchop and Bizet covers (the latter featuring Rufus Wainwright).
		"Grown Backwards" is an often fascinating addition to the Byrne oeuvre, but it's far from his most exciting work.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/cd_reviews/articles/2004/03/26/david_byrne_grown_backwards (266 words)

	FFWD Weekly - April 15, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For Grown Backwards, Byrne makes perhaps his biggest leap yet with straight-faced renditions of his favourite Bizet and Verdi opera moments placed side-by-side with more typical self-penned material, a choice Lambchop cover ("The Man Who Loved Beer") and even a token dance track ("Lazy").
		Backed by Rufus Wainwright (a somewhat more skilled vocalist at this type of thing), Byrne stretches his still-awkward voice to the limit over the nooks and valleys of "Au Fond du Temple Saint" from Bizet’s Les Pecheurs de Perles, and the results are a near-perfect example of emotion over technicality.
		As a whole, Grown Backwards is a patchwork mess thrown against the wall that somehow works.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2004/0415/cd10.htm (307 words)

	CD review: David Byrne — “Grown Backwards” (printable version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		David Byrne’s “Grown Backward” on the Nonesuch label blurs the line between rational and absurd by melding delightfully confusing lyrics with an unlikely orchestral backing.
		“Grown Backwards” isn’t all about the zany, however.
		“Grown Backwards” may be outright weird in places.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=77896 (237 words)

	Grown Backwards : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		Like recent works by Elvis Costello and David Bowie, Grown Backwards represents a return to form, particularly on leftfield songs such as "Tiny Apocalypse" and "Dialog Box", which could have easily fit alongside the classics on his former band's retrospective.
		So it was to my dismay to listen to Grown Backwards to find that for a few measley pounds I have deprived myself unnecessarily of the privelige of listening to one of the best albums I have heard in this decade.
		As far as I am concerned this album is Byrne's coming of age where he has finally learnt to embrace different musical styles on his terms and not theirs.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/B0001D3KNK/Grown_Backwards.html (663 words)

	Delusions of Adequacy Reviews - David Byrne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Byrne, going back to his Talking Heads days, has never been content with his own musical status quo, so it seems that a creative rut couldn’t have been the issue, but whatever the reason the end result is a vital, winning album.
		Despite that part of Grown Backwards’s nature, Byrne has also chosen to include three songs he didn’t write, including two arias and a cover of Lambchop’s “The Man Who Loved Beer.” Mostly because Byrne applies the same instrumentation to these songs as he does to the rest, these songs stand out without sticking out.
		On Grown Backwards, Byrne has once again quietly proven that despite the “art-rock” pedigree, he has developed a remarkable, comprehensive grasp of all forms of pop, and he continues never to shy away from feats of musical daring.
	www.adequacy.net /reviews/b/davidbyrne.shtml (1183 words)

	Eye - Love to Byrne - 03.11.04
		Over the past couple of years, Byrne and his wife of 15 years split up, and his label, Luaka Bop, was dropped by its major-label distributor, Virgin.
		Deadpan social criticism -- as on "Empire," which sounds like a national anthem for a social Darwinist state -- is offset by abstract songs that seem to promote the acceptance of change.
		Grown Backwards is typically diverse, incorporating elements of Latin music, alt-country (he covers Lambchop's "The Man Who Loved Beer") and funky pop, all meticulously arranged with strings and horns.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.11.04/music/ondisc.html (1194 words)

	Hear/Say: America's College Music Magazine - Reviews - Eels: Shootenanny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Grown Backwards, Stephen Barber’s intimate arrangements provide a rich backdrop to Byrne’s best writing in years.
		Grown Backwards, Byrne’s earlier aggression has been tempered, but his anxiety hasn’t.
		Grown Backwards marks the return of a major force in contemporary music.
	www.hearsay.cc /reviews/albums/07-09-05-04/DavidByrne.html (414 words)

	David Byrne: Grown Backwards (2004): Reviews
		With the possible exception of his work with Brian Eno, Backwards is his most technically honed album to date.
		Extends the with-strings concept of last year's Lead Us Not Into Temptation and is equally arresting in its breadth of content and creativity.
		Grown Backwards' restraint risks landing it in a coffeehouse ghetto that only asks for its music to be ignorable, but just because something can be ignored doesn't mean that it should, as the solid handful of excellent moments here proves.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/byrnedavid/grownbackwards (558 words)

	David Byrne: Grown Backwards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Such creative individuals usually rely on artistic transformation to avoid the hapless "rut," as is the case with Grown Backwards, an opposite follow-up to 2001’s Look Into The Eyeball.
		Where the latter was more limited by grooves, Grown Backwards, stems from a "top down" approach to songwriting, with Byrne developing melodies first and then figuring out which chords and structures best fitted his vivid imagination.
		Throughout "Grown Backwards," the prominent string sections inspire Byrne’s twisted sentimentalism.
	www.glidemagazine.com /2/reviews334.html (500 words)

	U-Press Telegram - MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There are plenty of funk, African and Latin percussive sounds on "Grown Backwards," which the All Music Guide calls "a genuinely moving and wickedly fun record."
		"All this time there was love, anger, sadness and frustration," Byrne writes on the liner notes of "Grown Backwards," talking about the period in which he created the album.
		That, too, is reflected in songs on "Grown Backwards." On "Empire," he takes an imperious tone as he sings, "Young artists and writers, please heed the call.
	u.presstelegram.com /Stories/0,1413,218~24215~2360540,00.html (799 words)

	Neumu - 44.1kHz
		It occurred to me the other day, as I was leafing through a collection of Hoagland's poems while listening to Grown Backwards, David Byrne's new album, that these two artists have a similar way of viewing the world.
		So, it may come as a bit of a surprise that on Grown Backwards Byrne downplays the world-beats in favor of string arrangements.
		Grown Backwards opens with "Glass, Concrete & Stone," an exploration of love through the lens of, oddly enough, construction materials.
	neumu.net /fortyfour/2004/2004-00243/2004-00243_fortyfour.shtml (880 words)

	David Byrne - Grown Backwards - Nonesuch - CD
		This is why Nonesuch is a perfect fit for him, whereas on Luaka Bop, he sometimes seemed constrained (if you can believe that); he was the godfather of a specific idea, the fusion and delivery system of worldbeat.
		Odd that he would have to leave his own encampment to find the freedom evident on Grown Backwards.
		If there is a caveat about the disc, it is that Byrne still sometimes goes over your head, as if he has renamed the salt “sugar”, the sugar “salt”, invited you for a cup of coffee and neglected to tell you this detail.
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/ByrneDavidGrownBackwardsCD.html (776 words)

	Rolling Stone : Grown Backwards : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But judging from Grown Backwards, his sixth solo album, Byrne is still broadcasting from a neighborhood, or planet, all his own.
		The songs and opera selections (he performs bits of Bizet and Verdi) are gently loopy: They could coax a bemused smile out of a stone.
		Taken as a whole, Grown Backwards is a delicate work with a moving subtext: The casually odd music and Byrne's subtle evocations of loneliness work together to suggest that it's great to be your own favorite weirdo, but not paying attention to the rest of the world around you, well, that's really strange.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/5188891 (231 words)

	McGeek > David Byrne's Grown Backwards
		Grown Backwards is the first album I've listened to by him in a very long time.
		Grown Backwards certainly has range, certainly is eclectic.
		I do not believe, and have never believed that Byrne over-intellectualizes, even though Byrne has been seen since the start of Talking Heads as something of the geek's musician: "As an adolescent I wasn't sure if I wanted to be a scientist or an artist.
	www.mcgeek.com /mainsite/media/114,2.html (750 words)

	David Byrne : Grown Backwards - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After eight post-Talking Heads solo outings, the eccentric composer, songwriter, artist, and world music entrepreneur has transcended the inconsistencies of his previous efforts and created a genuinely moving and wickedly fun record.
		Like Bowie's Heathen and Reality, Grown Backwards is a mature work by an icon who has come to terms with his past, present, and future, and there's a joy in the simple act of creativity here that gives even the heaviest of subject matter an effervescent charm.
		While by no means perfect, Grown Backwards is the colorful, multiethnic sound of a New York City enthralled with itself, and like a select few of the Big Apple's denizens, Byrne is a perfect conduit for its love.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,2843062,00.html (523 words)

	global hit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It's called "Grown Backwards." Byrne visited our studios recently to talk about "Grown Backwards." He also shared with us some of tunes he stores on his MP3 player.
		On "Grown Backwards", the sounds are just as eclectic.
		David Byrne recorded two opera arias on his new album "Grown Backwards." One by Giuseppe Verdi and one By Georges Bizet.
	www.theworld.org /globalhits/2004/05/24.shtml (677 words)

	Grown Backwards - Seinfeld Blog - Seinfeld DVD For Sale Now
		Grown Backwards - Seinfeld Blog - Seinfeld DVD For Sale Now
		I like strings with my rock and roll, and I like the music on "Grown Backwards." It's symphonic, and some songs...
		Grown Backwards seems a summation of Byrne's twenty years of maturation since Talking Heads.
	www.stanthecaddy.com /thestore/p/B0001D3KNK (265 words)

	Observer \| David Byrne: Grown Backwards
		Sometimes, as in the delicate guitar ballad 'She Only Sleeps', you think of Bryan Ferry, or at least Byrne in a tux.
		In this respect - though tracks such as 'Dialog Box' prove that he can still cut effortless dance music if he wants to - Grown Backwards is a wee small hours album.
		Many of the songs take you somewhere between last dance and lullaby, and even the two classical arias have a somnolent edge.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4861469-111646,00.html (325 words)

	George Graham Reviews David Byrne's "Grown Backwards"
		He moved beyond the punk and new wave of the 1980s into being the world-music exploring founder of a record label, and artist in many different media.
		His new recording, Grown Backwards marks a further facet of his musical career, with the prominent use of the string section and songs conceived in a somewhat different manner than his previous material.
		His new CD, Grown Backwards is the embodiment of that, as he crosses more musical boundaries with aplomb.
	georgegraham.com /reviews/byrne04.html (1118 words)

	David Byrne - Grown Backwards
		Byrne takes his opportunity to remind us of the background hum that modern society suffers from - the unassailable fear of failure and what's going to happen when things go badly wrong.
		Grown Backwards is an album to listen to.
		It doesn't really work as background music, so your young lady will probably feel the need to comment.
	www.musicomh.com /albums2/david-byrne.htm (562 words)

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