Laurie Anderson and her 2010 album, Homeland

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It doesn't hold up so close to the end of the year: too quiet, almost tentative. "Only An Expert" and "Bodies in Motion" are my favorites. The second half is actually stronger.

look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link

hmmm I love the quiet stuff especially the ones with Eyvind Kang... was really put off by "Only An Expert" at first but it grew on me.

any way you slice it this seems like her best since Bright Red.

sleeve, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

her delivery on "dark time in the revolution" -- her maternal smirk on the line "no matter who you vote for", or the whisper finishing "and you thought there were things / that had disappeared forever / things from the middle ages / beheadings and hangings / and people locked in cages / and suddenly they were everywhere" -- is great agitprop.

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link

I really need to spend some serious time with this album - only enjoyed it casually for the last year and I think it deserves better

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

And now the clock points histrionically to noon
Some new kind of north
And so
which way do we go

michel goindry (wins), Friday, 5 May 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link


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