Lead Us Not into Temptation started as music for the film Young Adam, but has evolved to sit somewhere between a true soundtrack and a David Byrne solo album. The music often echoes the gloom and dankness of the Scottish climate, sometimes mournful without being depressing or bleak, at other times tempered by a subdued optimism. Strings, piano, and Rhodes rise and fall in the mix, adding impetus to songs that could have too easily become static. Vocals appear only on the last two tracks: "Speechless," with its double-tracked, near unintelligible delivery, and the stately "Great Western Road." Lead Us Not into Temptation is somber and beautiful in a way listeners have not heard from David Byrne, and although he was probably pushed in this direction by the nature of the project, the fact is that this is one of the strongest albums of his solo career.

Track Listing
1 Body in a River
2 Mnemonic Discordance
3 Seaside Smokes
4 Canal Life
5 Locks & Barges
6 Haitian Fight Song
7 Sex on the Docks
8 Inexorable
9 Warm Sheets
10 Dirty Hair
11 Bastard
12 The Lodger
13 Ineluctable
14 Speechless
15 The Great Western Road