Laurie Anderson: Homeland | CD review

(Nonesuch)Several years in the making, the new album by Laurie Anderson – the NY-based performance artist who recently performed a piece of music for dogs - feels like the release of a long-held breath. What really fires Anderson up are the developments in world politics, with an emphasis on American misadventures at home and abroad. The most forceful piece, "Only an Expert", which takes aim at bank bailouts, the Iraq war and climate change denial, is scattershot. It's the quieter moments here...

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