Released June 22, 2010 Homeland(2010) (TBA) Release date 22 June 2010 | Length 66:00 | |
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Recorded 2007–2010at Masterdisk, NYC Similar Laurie Anderson albums, Pop music albums |
Homeland is the eighth studio album by Laurie Anderson. It is her first album of new material since 2001's Life on a String.
Contents
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.
Track listing
- "Transitory Life" (6:52)
- "My Right Eye" (5:01)
- "Thinking of You" (4:12)
- "Strange Perfumes" (4:46)
- "Only an Expert" (7:26)
- "Falling" (3:19)
- "Another Day in America" (11:24)
- "Bodies in Motion" (7:10)
- "Dark Time in the Revolution" (5:19)
- "The Lake" (5:39)
- "The Beginning of Memory" (2:45)
- "Flow" (2:15)
DVD
- "Homeland: The Story of the Lark" (41:00)
- "Laurie's Violin" (7:00)
Personnel
DVD
Reception
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".
Charts
Album
Songs
1Transitory Life6:53
2My Right Eye5:00
3Thinking of You4:14