Laurie Anderson Announces New Album Amelia for August 2024 Release, Shares New Single “Road To Mandalay”

Laurie Anderson has announced her first album in six years, Amelia, set to be released on August 30th via Nonesuch. Cited from Brooklyn Vegan, Anderson’s Amelia album is based on the historical figure, Amelia Earhart, and her tragic flight. Anderson is quoted as saying she was heavily inspired by Amelia Earheart’s pilot diaries and the telegrams she wrote to her husband. 

Amelia comes a few months after Anderson’s performance at the Big Ears Festival. Brooklyn Vegan also reports that the album “features Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and contributions from ANOHNI, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wollesen.”

Anderson has recently released a single set to be included on Amelia, titled “Road to Mandalay” :  

Amelia Track List:

1. To Circle the World
2. I See Something Shining
3. Take-off
4. Aloft
5. San Juan
6. Brazil
7. Crossing the Equator
8. The Badlands
9. Waves of Sand
10. The Letter
11. India And On Down to Australia
12. This Modern World
13. Flying at Night
14. The Word for Woman Here
15. Road to Mandalay
16. Broken Chronometers
17. Nothing But Silt
18. The Wrong Way
19. Fly Into the Sun
20. Howland Island
21. Radio
22. Lucky Dime