Laurie Anderson’s First New Album in Five Years Is About Amelia Earhart

Laurie Anderson’s First New Album in Five Years Is About Amelia Earhart

Laurie Anderson will return this summer with Amelia, her first new album in five years. Out Aug. 30 via Nonesuch Records, Amelia was influenced by aviation legend Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic who disappeared on her 1937 flight around the world. You can hear a first taste of the album, the meditative track “Road to Mandalay,” below. “The words used in Amelia are inspired by her pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrot…