Title: Byrne, baby, Byrne
Product review: "Look Into the Eyeball" is another in a line of outstanding works by Byrne. It is filled with those elements that go into making him one of the ultimate rock performers and paradoxes. Like his persona, his songs are a curious combination of the mundane with the weird, the straightforward with the inventive, the sincere with the ironic. As a singer he is quirky yet solid, off-key yet pleasant, casual yet compelling, distant yet emotive. And as a performer, he remains, even on record, awkward but riveting, spasmodic but rhythmic, mechanical but endearingly human. The production and musicianship are brilliant. And his Boz Scaggs meets Barney Fife rendition of the Philly-soul sounding "Neighborhood" has us smiling while dancing.
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