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9.0
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9.0 |
Clash
‘Amelia’ is this a towering work of artistic endeavour and creative genius which comfortably ranks as one of Anderson’s most definitive statements yet
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9.0
138925
9.0 |
PopMatters
Trailblazing avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson tells the story of Amelia Earhart in a wonderful, engaging musical documentary
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8.8
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8.8 |
Spectrum Culture
By turns delicate, grand and distraught, in this telling of another woman’s story, Amelia may in some ways be Anderson’s most personal album yet
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8.3
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8.3 |
Spin
On Amelia, Anderson resurrects this courageous woman and gives her breath, heart, and soul. It is impossible to hear this aerial ballet and walk away unaffected
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Arts Desk
This is the soundtrack for a film we play in our minds while listening
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8.0
138723
8.0 |
The Quietus
String arrangements are the primary medium of Amelia, on a spectrum from Anderson’s solo viola to a string trio to the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno. This continuously swelling and contracting palette is a perfect match to her descriptions of distant rolling seas and hills below
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7.1
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7.1 |
Pitchfork
The multimedia artist’s latest release is a fictionalized retelling of Amelia Earhart’s final voyage. A brisk and largely frictionless record, it’s nonetheless filled with moments of awestruck wonder
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
The US musician’s reboot of a 2000 work about Amelia Earhart is frustratingly slow to take off
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