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"Laurie Anderson...has broken through and made some of the most interesting art of the late 20th Century...earning as she goes a reputation as one of the world's premiere performance artists."
-Wired

"To devotees, Laurie Anderson is the most stimulating female artist on the planet. Confronted by her best work, it's almost possible to remove the word "female" from that description...pushing the barriers but always supremely musical, Anderson is manna for the heart, soul AND mind."
-Mojo, January 2001 (in a review of Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology)

"Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignance - a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace."
-Rolling Stone

"Anderson continues to imbue her work with a singular perspective that is both haunting and timeless."
-The New Yorker

"[Laurie Anderson is] the reigning performance artist of her time."
-Boston Globe

"[Laurie Anderson's] tone has grown less droll and more elegiac, and what once seemed offhanded or oblique has turned chillingly prophetic....There was grief in the songs, but not despair. The songs acknowledged the worst and pondered where to go from here."
-The New York Times

"[Laurie Anderson is] an acutely humane observer, finding warmth and humor in stories about the ordinary turned exotic."
-New York Daily News

"[Laurie Anderson's] music seems emblematic of the city: ambitious, insightful, humorous and always teeming with four or five parts that really don¹t seem like they should fit together but do."
-Newsday

On Homeland:

"Homeland is Anderson's most politically charged offering to date .. .cloaked in many of the artist's familiar motifs -- the storm-tossed canvas of strings and electronica, in particular, is a signature -- the production plunges depths of emotional rawness rarely witnessed in her work."
-The Independent (Ireland)

"A keenly, sometimes wryly, observed criticism of contemporary America."
-Sunday Morning Herald (Sydney)

"[Homeland] is a simple live music performance, but one that nevertheless demonstrates Anderson's unique gifts with music and text, and reinforces the strength and integrity of her artistic voice. Those seeking a multimedia extravaganza or a greatest-hits package might be disappointed. But the faithful were enraptured by Homeland, transported by its poetic vision and sustained aesthetic realization."
-The Age (Melbourne)

"Laurie Anderson's Homeland is a revelation… a journey across post-September 11 America…exposing the absurdity of that world as it stands. There is a strong sense of transience during the performances as though it will disappear, never to be seen or heard again….Homeland is a performance not to be missed."
-The Australian Stage

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