★★★★★
Perhaps the weirdest thing about weirdo-pop masterpiece Big Science, an album which seems to repel all listeners not already deeply entrenched within the whole "art music" scene, is that it's not at all confrontational--it's actually a lot of fun to listen to...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Perhaps the weirdest thing about weirdo-pop masterpiece Big Science, an album which seems to repel all listeners not already deeply entrenched within the whole "art music" scene, is that it's not at all confrontational--it's actually a lot of fun to listen to...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-02-27
★★★★★
On September 19 and 20, 2001, audiences at New York City's Town Hall welcomed Laurie Anderson home. Several weeks earlier, the performance artist and her band (Skuli Sverrisson [bass], Peter Scherer [keyboards], and Jim Black [drums]) had begun a tour that would take them through the northeastern United States and then on to Europe...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
One of the keys to Laurie Anderson's material success as an artist has been the ability of her albums to stand on their own merits, to exist as artistic objects that are separate from her performances. Certainly, Anderson's performances--multimedia combinations of film, music, dance, and verbal storytelling--bring a new dimension to the songs that we hear on the CDs, deepening our appreciation for Anderson's work...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
A large proportion of Anderson's first album in almost a decade will be familiar to anyone who's seen her stage show over the last two or three years. Homeland is a densely-plotted overview of the American condition, which makes some serious points but is also rich in humour. Given that her last release, Life On A String, came out a month before 9/11, when George Bush was less than a year into his first presidential term, Anderson's certainly not starved of raw material to dissect...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
On the cover of her debut album, 1982's Big Science, Laurie Anderson stands lightning white against shadow. When album track 'O Superman' reached a surprise No. 2 in the British charts, the performance artist turned poet turned composer-photographer-filmmaker became a lab-coated Superwoman for the Popular, as well as a full-voiced figure of the avant-garde...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Laurie Anderson is no lightweight, and neither is her latest release, her first studio album in 10 years. Anderson explores the modern-day American empire in a most creative and haunting way, as evidenced by the 11-minute-plus piece Another Day in America, narrated by her male alter-ego Fenway Bergamot. Wrapped within swirling electro soundscapes, her lyrics - sometimes sung, sometimes spoken - move Anderson effortlessly from the personal to the political...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Laurie Anderson has a gift for creating evocative recordings. Her multi-media live performances may have the benefit of added visuals but the storytelling aspect of Anderson's albums can just as easily draw a listener out of a purely aural experience. Homeland may seem to play at times like an end-times discourse on the state of the nation, but Anderson's not that much of a defeatist...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2010-09-07
★★★★★
Her first studio album in nearly a decade, Homeland is produced by Laurie Anderson with Roma Baran and Lou Reed—and expands on the time-tested templates of her past work—but with more singing, violin playing and overtly transparent politics. She's a master at weaving modern observations with comments on history and the profound mundanity of human existence, whether reflecting on the nature of time, freedom, consciousness or political awareness...
- www.filter-mag.com
2010-08-27
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