David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant Vinyl, LP, Album Gatefold
The album cover was inspired by Beauty and the Beast, with Byrne as a "Buzz Lightyear-like" beauty and Clark as a grotesque beast. The duo originally intended a plastic beauty and feral beast as a joke about the age difference between the two, but altered their idea when they met the prosthetics designer.
Label:
4AD – CAD 3231
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
UK & US
Released:
2012
Genre:
Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop
Style:
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental
Tracklist
A1
Who
A2
Weekend In The Dust
A3
Dinner For Two
A4
Ice Age
A5
I Am An Ape
A6
The Forest Awakes
B7
I Should Watch T.V.
B8
Lazarus
B9
Optimist
B10
Lightning
B11
The One Who Broke Your HeartFeaturing – Antibalas, The Dap-Kings
Featuring – Antibalas, The Dap-Kings
B12
Outside Of Space And Time
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Todo Mundo, Ltd.
Copyright © – Todo Mundo, Ltd.
Licensed To – 4AD Ltd.
Published By – Moldy Fig Music
Published By – BMG Chrysalis
Recorded At – Water Music Recorders
Recorded At – Pat Dillett's Studio
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Lacquer Cut At – Nashville Record Productions
Pressed By – United Record Pressing
Credits
Arranged By [Brass] – Kelly Pratt (tracks: A3), Lenny Pickett (tracks: A2), Tony Finno (tracks: A1, A4 to B12)
Art Direction [Art Supervision] – LeeAnn Rossi
Artwork [Package Art] – Catalina Kulczar, Juan Marin, LeeAnn Rossi, Noah Wall
Bass – Paul Frazier (tracks: A1, B12)
Bass [Synth Bass] – Annie Clark (tracks: A4, A5, B7, B10)
Brass [Arrangements] – Ken Thompson (tracks: A6)
Clarinet – Evan Smith (2) (tracks: A1, A5), Jack Bashkow (tracks: B9), Steve Elson (tracks: B9), Tom Timko (tracks: B9)
Co-producer – John Congleton, Patrick Dillett
Contractor [Brass] – Alex Kadvan (tracks: B11), Garo Yellin (tracks: A1, A3 to B10, B12), Lenny Pickett (tracks: A2)
Cover [Back Cover Type Design] – Philip Laslett
Cover [Type Design] – Steve Powers (6)
Design [Package Design] – Noah Wall
Drum Programming – John Congleton
Drums – Anthony LaMarca (tracks: A1)
Engineer [Additional] – Jon Altschuler, Yuki Takahashi
Euphonium – Kenneth Finn (tracks: A3), Tom Hutchinson (tracks: A3)
French Horn – Chris Komer (tracks: A1, A3 to A5, B7, B9, B10, B12), Eric Davis (8) (tracks: A1, A3 to A5, B7 to B10, B12), Jacquelyn Adams (tracks: A1, A4, A5, B7, B10, B12), Lawrence Di Bello* (tracks: A6), Patrick Milando (tracks: A6), R.J. Kelley (tracks: A3, B8, B9), Rachel Drehmann (tracks: A6, B8)
Lacquer Cut By – WG*
Management – Alex Kadvan, David "Boche" Viecelli*, Lever And Beam (AC)*, Maine Road (DB)*, Marisa Brown
Management [Artist Management] – David Whitehead
Management [Business] – Ilene Bashinsky, Ms. Lia Sweet*, Nan Lanigan
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Mixed By – Patrick Dillett
Omnichord – David Byrne (tracks: B9)
Other [Press] – Carla Sacks, Carrie Tolles, Krista Williams, Matt Hanks
Other [Prosthetics] – Gabe Bartalos
Percussion – Mauro Refosco (tracks: B6, B7, B9)
Photography By [Cover] – Richard Burbridge
Piano – Annie Clark (tracks: A3)
Producer – Annie Clark, David Byrne
Production Manager – Frank Hendler
Programmed By [Percussion Programming] – David Byrne (tracks: B6, B7, B11)
Recorded By – John Congleton (tracks: A1), Patrick Dillett
Saxophone – Alex Foster (tracks: A2), Bob Magnuson (tracks: A6), Cochema Gastelum* (tracks: B11), Ian Hendrickson-Smith (tracks: B11), Jack Bashkow (tracks: A1, A3 to B10), Lenny Pickett (tracks: A2), Martin Perna (tracks: B11), Ron Blake (tracks: A2), Stan Harrison (tracks: A2), Steve Elson (tracks: A1 to B8, B10), Stuart Bogie (tracks: B11), Tom Timko (tracks: A1, A3 to A5, B7 to B10)
Songwriter – Annie Clark (tracks: A1 to B11), David Byrne (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B12), Walt Whitman (tracks: A6)
Trombone – Aaron Johnson (tracks: B11), Brian Mahany (tracks: A3 to A5, B7, B9, B10, B12), Jeff Caswell (tracks: A4 to B10, B12), Kenneth Finn (tracks: A5 to B10), Michael Williams* (tracks: B11), Mike Seltzer* (tracks: A4, B12), Ozzie Melendez (tracks: A2), Ryan Keberle (tracks: A2), Steve Turre (tracks: A2), William Lang (3) (tracks: A3, A6)
Trumpet – David Guy* (tracks: B11), Dominic Derasse (tracks: A3, A6, B8), Earl Gardner (tracks: A2), Gareth Flowers (tracks: A3 to B10, B12), Jonathan Powell (tracks: A2), Jordan McLean (tracks: B11), Josh Frank (tracks: A4, A5, B7, B10, B12), Kelly Pratt (tracks: A3, B9), Mike Gurfield (tracks: A3 to B10, B12), Ravi Best (tracks: A2)
Tuba – Bob Stewart (tracks: B11), Kyle Turner (4) (tracks: A3, A6), Marcus Rojas (tracks: A2, A4, B7, B8, B10, B12), Randy Andos (tracks: A2)
Vocals, Guitar – Annie Clark, David Byrne
Love This Giant is a studio album made in collaboration between musicians David Byrne and St. Vincent, released on 4AD and Todo Mundo on September 10, 2012, in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States. Marking Byrne's ninth studio album overall and Clark's fourth, Byrne and Clark began working together in late 2009,[2] using a writing and promotion process that Byrne had previously used on his 2008 collaboration with Brian Eno Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.[3] The duo had previously played together live at an Actor Tour concert, and on the album Here Lies Love.[4] The performers enlisted a variety of brass musicians to augment their songwriting and toured over the following year to promote the album.
David Byrne incorporated a reworked performance of "I Should Watch TV" in his American Utopia Tour, and later in its Broadway production, documented in the film of the same name.
