• Record Label: Nonesuch
  • Release Date: Aug 21, 2001
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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

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  1. Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignance - a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace.
  2. Anderson's best work has always been simultaneously opaque and pointed, suggestive, and even topical, without being didactic. Those qualities apply again here.
  3. Magnet
    70
    Life On A String also reveals the tedious aspects of Anderson's muse. [#51, p.82]