David Byrne has been a part of the pop-culture bedrock for nearly 50 years — so long that it’s sometimes easy to take him for granted.

After the creative burst that vaulted him into the public consciousness via his first five albums with Talking Heads — a period that includes most of his best-known songs, from “Psycho Killer” to “Once in a Lifetime” and “Burning Down the House” — he’s long since settled into a kind of creative cruising altitude: He’s still exploring and innovating, working diligently on a long array of albums, art projects, soundtracks, books and other endeavors that reflect his seemingly boundless curiosity and delight in art, humans and the world. But it’s with less intensity and confrontation, and less of a sense of hurtling toward the sun.

Still, it’s hard to thin

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