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The vinyl is a triple LP composed of 23 songs. Its cover and interior packaging feature paintings by Anderson.

Laurie Anderson and Sexmob recorded this triple-LP/double-CD, Let X=X, during a 2023 tour. Sexmob features Steven Bernstein on brass, Briggan Krauss on saxophone and guitar, Tony Scherr on bass, Douglas Wieselman on winds and guitar, and Kenny Wollesen on drums and percussion. Its cover and interior packaging feature paintings by Anderson. The album features twenty-three songs, including many favorites from throughout Andersons career, performed in new arrangementsplus one by Lou Reed and Metallica, Junior Dad.

Laurie Anderson is one of Americas most renownedand daringcreative pioneers. Her work, which encompasses music, visual art, poetry, film, and photography, has challenged and delighted audiences around the world for more than forty years.

Laurie Anderson was awarded the 2024 Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, along with Christopher Nolan and David Attenborough, and the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet in her honor: Asteroid 270588, Laurieanderson. That same year, she was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

The New York Times said Anderson and Sexmobs concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) wasnt a historical recreation of past recordings; Sexmobs sound is a beefier one than on Andersons albums. With musicians who can double on electric guitar and bass clarinet, its members offered a rich range of textural variation throughout the evening.

Tracklist:

1. From the Air
2. Good Evening
3. Cloud
4. Let X=X
5. It Tango
6. Drum Solo
7. Teachers
8. Story to No One
9. Gravitys Angel
10. Ramon
11. New Angels
12. Walk the Dog
13. Looking at the Moon
14. Church of Panic
15. Dog Show
16. Junior Dad
17. O Superman
18. The Lake
19. Swimming
20. Its Not the Bullet that Kills You
21. Only an Expert
22. What Are Days For?
23. How to Feel Sad Without Being Sad

UPC: 075597893298
Label: Nonesuch
Release Date: 5.8.26
Format: Pre-Order