Nonesuch Records releases Laurie Andersons Amelia, the 2024 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient’s first new album since 2018s Grammy-winning Landfall.

The record comprises 22 tracks about renowned female aviator Amelia Earharts tragic last flight. Anderson, who Pitchfork says, sees the future, but she starts by paying attention, wrote the music and lyrics for this subjective narrative piece. On the album, she is joined by the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wolleson.

Earhart was a passionate pioneer of early aviation, achieving fame as the first woman to cross the Atlantic, in 1932. Five years later, she embarked o