Let X=X (Live)

‘Laurie Anderson gets back to having a good time: with the jazz combo Sexmob, this enduring avant-gardist revisited vintage and recent songs with a grooving spirit.’ – New York Times

‘[Anderson is] one of the great popular artists and storytellers of our time’ – Guardian

Nonesuch Records releases Let X=X, by Laurie Anderson with Sexmob.  This triple-LP/double-CD set was recorded live during a 2023 tour by Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob – Steven Bernstein and Briggan Krauss on brass, Kenny Wollesen on percussion, Douglas Wieselman on winds and guitar, and Tony Scherr on bass.  Its cover and interior packaging feature paintings by Anderson.  The album features 23 songs, including many favourites from throughout Anderson’s career, performed in new arrangements – plus one by Lou Reed and Metallica, ‘Junior Dad’.  Anderson and Sexmob play more US and international dates this spring and summer (details below).

The New York Times said Anderson and Sexmob’s concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) ‘wasn’t a historical recreation of past recordings; Sexmob’s sound is a beefier one than on Anderson’s 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. Gravity’s 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. It’s Not the Bullet that Kills You
21. Only an Expert
22. What Are Days For?
23. How to Feel Sad Without Being Sad