Byrne Gives 'Love' To HBO

Former Talking Head, David Byrne will score the second season of HBO's polygamy Mormon drama, "Big Love," according to the L.A. Times.

The gray-haired, skittish singer and composer follows Mark Mothersbaugh (ex Devo founder/Wes Anderson musical co-hort) as the show's house composer. "I have friends who are lapsed Mormons," he said. "The Mormon mythology — to say nothing of the polygamy — is wild and fascinating."

"I suggested that all the music should evoke Mormon hymns," Byrne said. "Just slightly, but I imagined that the 'spiritual' underpinning might be evoked using the music. I wrote and recorded a bunch of these, but only a few were used. Ah, well, they'll turn up somewhere."

"In some of the later episodes I'm working on things that get pretty weird, borderline David Lynch territory, so we'll see how that goes over."