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9.0
102319
9.0 |
All Music
It's an elemental mystery of quietly epic proportions made exceptional through clarity of thought and feeling
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8.5
102321
8.5 |
The Quietus
You might not have thought to put Anderson and Kronos Quartet together, but they did think of it, and the results are, in both the philosophical and the colloquial senses, sublime
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8.5
102315
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Beautifully-measured collaboration between two venerable avant garde artists
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8.3
102386
8.3 |
Gig Soup
Beauty, magic and catastrophe. All those elements are in “Landfall”, but arranged in the best way possible
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8.0
102806
8.0 |
Record Collector
Landfall is a humourous, magnetic, and heart-breaking album, and paved with the kind of pathos that could make even TV’s Mr Tumble feel a little flat
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8.0
102316
8.0 |
The Independent
Her text muses on things swept away – dreams, memories, old equipment, extinct animals – while the music echoing the way that floods literally place things in different contexts
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8.0
102317
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Landfall is a welcome and fitting addition to both artist’s canons, which in itself is very high praise
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8.0
102318
8.0 |
musicOMH
It’s a hard-hitting, ambitious album that only serves to further consolidate the reputations of all involved
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8.0
102320
8.0 |
The Guardian
The composer’s song cycle on the 2015 storm that devastated New York has the power to make us shiver with empathy
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7.7
102507
7.7 |
Pitchfork
Laurie Anderson’s collaboration with the San Francisco-based string quartet presents a powerful, elegiac cycle of songs that show how human memory can be stronger than catastrophe
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7.0
102411
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Anderson’s detached and fraying vocals capture the sense of fate marching mankind toward a cliff
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7.0
102322
7.0 |
Uncut
Landfall is an electro-acoustic patchwork of mostly short, mournful, quietly lovely mood pieces. Print edition only
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4.0
102314
4.0 |
The Irish Times
As an exercise in soundscaping it doesn’t miss a trick, but unless you’re a fan of determined, freak-out violins, it might have limited interest
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