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- Artist(s): Kronos Quartet
- Summary: Hurricane Sandy is the subject of the debut collaboration album from Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Classical, Avant-Garde
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Mar 12, 2018For all it's pathos there's still a sense of detachment to the album, one that allows the listener to appreciate its beauty instead of continuously wallowing in misery. Landfall is a complex record that trades in gloom, comfort, and grace.
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Feb 15, 2018While it may be inspired by Sandy's fallout, Landfall's reach runs to a sea of loss, chaos, and confusion. It's an elemental mystery of quietly epic proportions made exceptional through clarity of thought and feeling.
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Feb 15, 2018Beautifully-measured collaboration between two venerable avant garde artists.
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Feb 15, 2018Landfall, however, manages to eke some joy and inspiration from this grim tragedy.
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Feb 15, 2018You might not have thought to put Anderson and Kronos Quartet together, but they did think of it, and the results are, in both the philosophical and the colloquial senses, sublime.
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Feb 15, 2018Despite the resourcefulness of Kronos’ contributions, though, Anderson is Landfall’s most crucial actor and its saving grace; the humility, naturalism, and humor of her recitations justify the scale of the project.
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UncutFeb 15, 2018Landfall is an electro-acoustic patchwork of mostly short, mournful, quietly lovely mood pieces. [Mar 2018, p.22]
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