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Big Science
The 728th greatest album of all time
Big Science is Laurie Anderson's 1982 debut studio album, blending experimental electronic textures, art pop songcraft and performance art into spare, narrative pieces. Anderson pairs deadpan spoken-word delivery and processed vocals with minimal synths, loops and found sounds to explore themes of communication, technology and everyday oddities. The collection translates her stage work into intimate studio recordings, and is widely remembered for the eerie, insistent centerpiece "O Superman," which exemplifies the album's mix of humor, pathos and conceptual minimalism.
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