LAURIE ANDERSON Homeland (2010 UK Deluxe Edition 2-disc [CD/DVD] album set - 'Homeland' is a distilled, up-to-the-minute portrait of the USA, its politics, its economics, its delusions and its dreams. Her tone is less outraged than elegiac, mourning for lives lost, ideals misplaced. The music is dramatically stripped down to a handful of players, centred around Anderson's haunting violin and voice, frequent Bill Frisell band-mate Eyvind Kang's viola and Peter Scherer's keyboards. Thearrangements are embellished with such touches as the siren-like vocals of Antony Hegarty [of Antony and the Johnsons], thumping keyboards from Keiran Hebden [of Four Tet], and, on the brilliant, wickedly funny single 'Only An Expert', a gnarly guitar turn from Anderson's husband and co-producer Lou Reed. Comprising the 12-track CD album plus a Bonus DVD containing two films: 'Laurie's Violin' [7:22], in which Laurie plays and talks about the violin, and 'Homeland: The Story Of The Lark' [41:27], an art documentary broken up into 16 chapters)