Laurie Anderson, Life on a String - 44m 24s

Tracks & Durations

1. One White Whale	2:04
2. The Island Where I Come From	4:08
3. Pieces And Parts	3:36
4. Here With You	2:22
5. Slip Away	5:50
6. My Compensation	2:28
7. Dark Angel	3:22
8. Broken	3:19
9. Washington Street	4:41
10. Statue Of Liberty	4:24
11. One Beautiful Evening	5:05
12. Life On A String	2:56

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Review

A new Laurie Anderson album is usually a thing to welcome. Often less a performance artist than point person for global-village storytelling--as on 1995's The Ugly One with the Jewels--she's also demonstrated a high level of musical savvy. Life on a String's meld of Biblical references, New York wanderings, world rhythms, and chamber music doesn't cohere like it should, though. Caught between bemusement and empathy, Anderson's knack for nailing oddball details can lift her work beyond mere wit, but not here. On "Dark Angel," she damns consumerism with lines that would've been laughable even at the outset of her career in the '70s: "Look at all the things I bought / I'm feeling kind of lost." Her quoting "I'm a Little Teapot" on "One Beautiful Evening" sounds like self-parody, or the result of a lost dare with another artsy type. And is the observation that it's a small world but she wouldn't want to paint it supposed to sound fresh? For true Anderson wigginess and smarts, try Ugly One, or for that matter, her classic debut, Big Science. --Rickey Wright

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Life on a String

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 44m 24s

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