You may ask yourself: what were they thinking? You may say to yourself: This is not my beautiful band. This is a watered-down-for-the-'90s, indie-rock-credibility-obsessed facsimile on the road to nowhere. In the words of "Psycho Killer," "Say something once, why say it again?"

At least the name of this band is not Talking Heads. The Heads may be the surviving rhythm section of that once-potent...