Talking Heads made paranoia danceable on Fear Of Music. Everyday necessities became potential threats, ordinary observations spiraled into existential questions, and the rhythm section kept moving as though standing still might make things worse. Fear Of Music (Super Deluxe Edition) returns to that uneasy world with a newly remastered album, studio rarities, and two complete concerts that expand the picture of a band pushing itself into unfamiliar territory.

The new collection revisits Talking Heads’ third album, originally released in August 1979. David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison reunited with producer Brian Eno, but changed their surroundings, recording the basic tracks over two days at Weymouth and Frantz’s Long Island City loft. Working where they rehearsed gave the sessions a familiar foundation for some increasingly adventurous ideas.

You can hear that push and pull throughout the album. “Life During Wartime” turns survival planning into an irresistible dance-floor proposition, with Byrne’s increasingly urgent delivery riding a groove that refuses to panic. “Cities” makes choosing somewhere to live sound like an investigation conducted by someone who has already started questioning the evidence. Even the song titles suggest a checklist of things that might require closer scrutiny: “Mind,” “Air,” “Animals,” “Electric Guitar.”

Then there’s “Heaven,” whose gentle melody offers a moment of apparent reassurance while the lyric quietly complicates the invitation. That ability to make something welcoming feel strange, or something alarming feel exhilarating, remains one of the album’s great pleasures. Weymouth and Frantz provide the physical pull, while Byrne and Harrison give the arrangements their restless edges. The music invites you in even when its narrator seems ready to bolt.

The recording process could be equally peculiar. For “Drugs,” Eno and the band removed individual notes and instruments from the backing track, creating pockets of unsettling space. They incorporated recordings of koalas Byrne had made in Australia, while Byrne recorded his vocal after jogging to achieve the breathless delivery he wanted. The resulting atmosphere was carefully constructed, however disoriented it might sound.

The expanded edition follows those experiments beyond the finished album. Six rarities include alternate versions of “Mind,” “Life During Wartime,” “Cities,” and “Drugs,” the unfinished outtake “Dancing For Money,” and the 12-inch version of “I Zimbra.” Concerts recorded at Boston’s Berklee Performance Center on August 24, 1979, and the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey, on November 17, 1979, place the material alongside earlier songs including “Psycho Killer” and “Love Goes To A Building On Fire.” Both shows appear in full for the first time.

Available as a 3CD/Blu-ray or 6LP collection, the Super Deluxe Edition also includes a 60-page hardcover book with rare photographs and liner notes by Will Hermes. The Blu-ray adds immersive audio presentations and 1979 Old Grey Whistle Test performances of “Life During Wartime” and “Air.”