Homeland (Laurie Anderson album)
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| Studio album by Laurie Anderson | ||||||||||
| Released | June 22, 2010 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 2007–2010 at Masterdisk, NYC |
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Avant-garde Experimental music Pop music |
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| Length | 66:00 | |||||||||
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Nonesuch/Elektra Records 79991 |
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| Producer | Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and Roma Baran | |||||||||
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Homeland is the eighth studio album by Laurie Anderson. It is her first album of new material since 2001's Life on a String.
The record was produced by Anderson, Lou Reed and Roma Baran. Anderson has been touring the project since late 2007, and the album was slated for release since as early as 2008. Because the project kept changing in form, the release was pushed back several times. The final release was a two-disc set consisting of a CD of music and a DVD.
The song "Only an Expert" was released as a 12" vinyl single on May 18, 2010. A song titled "Pictures and Things" was the single's B-side.
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Nina Power, previewing the album in The Wire magazine, claimed that Homeland "reminds us why Anderson, now in her sixties, is the (modulated) voice of America's conscience."
Margaret Wappler of The Los Angeles Times wrote of the album, "'Homeland' isn't so much an album as it is a poetic capturing of the still moments of a restless mind".
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