“Lou Reed has called The Raven "a movie for the mind," and that description just begins to capture this double CD’s phantasmagoric impact. Though it’s based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven is less a strictly literary or musical work than a dreamlike evocation of Poe’s obsessions: loss, guilt, violence, self-destruction and […]”
“When the dust finally settles on rock and roll, Lou Reed will be placed in its frontline of geniuses. A truly astonishing chunk of the sound, style, and ambition of rock's avant-garde has been directly or indirectly copied from the four proper albums Reed made with The Velvet Underground over three decades ago. Ever since he walked away from the sex 'n' drugs circuit, though, Reed has frequently s”
