Avant-garde music legend Laurie Anderson has announced her upcoming album Amelia, which revolves around the tragic story of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. Due out on August 30th via Nonesuch, the new album is previewed by Anderson’s brand new single ‘Road to Mandalay’.

“The words used in Amelia are inspired by her pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and my idea of what a woman flying around the world might think about,” Anderson said.

Her first full length release in six years, Amelia marks Anderson’s official return to the scene after her 2018 Grammy-winning album Landfall . Since then, the musical savant has joined Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith on the record Songs From the Bardo and recently received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Amelia will feature support from the Czech-based orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Ruseel Davies and consisting of nine talented musicians: Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wolleson.

Amelia Tracklisting
01 To Circle the World
02 I See Something Shining
03 Take-Off
04 Aloft
05 San Juan
06 Brazil
07 Crossing the Equator
08 The Badlands
09 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

Listen to Laurie Anderson's 'Road to Mandalay' here!