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Life on a String, Laurie Anderson's meld of Biblical references, New York wanderings, world rhythms and chamber music doesn't cohere like it should. Caught between bemusement and empathy, Anderson's knack for nailing oddball details can lift her work beyond mere wit, but not here. On "Dark Angel" she damns consumerism with lines that would've been laughable even as the outset of her career in the 1970s: "Look at all the things I bought... I'm feeling kind of lost." Her quoting "I'm a Little Teapot" on "One Beautiful Evening" sounds like self-parody, or the result of a lost dare with another artsy type. For true Anderson wigginess and smarts, try Ugly One With The Jewels, or for that matter, her classic debut Big Science. --Rickey Wright