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Amelia

Laurie Anderson

Amelia

Eighth studio album from the experimental performance artist is a fictionalized retelling of Amelia Earhart’s final voyage

ADM rating[?]

7.8

Label
Nonesuch
UK Release date
30/08/2024
US Release date
30/08/2024
  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    This is the soundtrack for a film we play in our minds while listening
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  6. 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. 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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  8. 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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