Billboard Interviews Laurie Anderson

Billboard writes that Laurie Anderson‘s new album, Amelia, “delves into legendary aviator Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated final flight. But while questions such as ‘what really happened to Amelia Earhart?’ and ‘where did her plane crash?’ have recurred throughout popular culture for nearly 90 years, Amelia isn’t interested in answers, or even asking questions. Instead, Anderson – through her indelible mixture of storytelling, sing-speak and dizzying soundscapes – takes us into the cockpit with Earhart throughout the course of her flight, drawing on flight logs, diary entries and contemporary interviews to give a sense of the frightening vastness of the ocean, the thrill and loneliness of exploration and the othering of female pilots in the 1930s. Like much of her work, it’s soothing, unsettling and thought-provoking.”

The magazine has an interview with Anderson. Check it out here.