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- Summary: Laurie Anderson, the performance artist, releases her first album of new material in nearly a decade, which was produced with her husband, Lou Reed, and Roma Baran.
- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
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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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This record is expansive in its own way. The melodic fragments and the underpinning harmonies are conventional and attractive.
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Regardless of where you stand politically, theologically or environmentally, or even with regards to the challenging, avant-garde nature of her sound, you cannot deny the power of Anderson's Homeland, one of the most riveting and poignant accounts of post-9/11 America pop music has offered to date.
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Homeland sees Anderson singing of a "Transitory Life," but by this point, it's clear her art will remain a permanent monument in pop culture. For as long as that culture lasts.
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Homeland is literally the most accessible Anderson recording since 1982's "Big Science" and easily stands among her masterworks.
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The innovative, at times baffling result is part performance art, part avant-garde symphony, with the occasional Kierkegaard joke thrown in for good measure.
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MojoHomeland wrestles with US foreign policy and economic collapse but is at its besy when simply capturing the spectral strangeness of the everyday. [Jul 2010, p.102]
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