release date: Aug. 21, 2001
format: digital
[album rate: 2,5 / 5]
producer: Laurie Anderson, Hal Willner
label: Nonesuch Records - nationality: USA
6th studio album release by Laurie Anderson following 7 years after Bright Red (Oct. 1994) i s her first studio album after leaving the Warner Bros. label and settling with Nonesuch as the label for all of her following releases.
Once again, she releases an album a long period concentrating on art performances and live concerts, and this time, I think, the end result is a bit of a disappointment. To me, that is 'cause I'm convinced that she has found a more personal outlet for her music with the shift to a label renowned for letting its artists have fuller control of their music, which means that this is the type of music she has wanted to release at this point. Still, of all her albums, this is to my ears her least interesting album. Stylistically, she dwells on her many spoken-word performances over the years adding strings and chamber music to her original lyrics. Laurie Anderson is not just about music, and perhaps this should be rated in the light of being a multi-media performance artist, however, I stick entirely to the musical aspect of it, and then it's not meeting my receiver that well.
