The Raven (Lou Reed album)
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| Studio album by Lou Reed | ||||
| Released | January 28, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 125:04 | |||
| Label | Sire | |||
| Producer | Hal Willner, Lou Reed | |||
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| Metacritic | 54/100 |
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| Pitchfork Media | (2.0/10) |
The Raven is the nineteenth solo album by Lou Reed. It is a concept album released in 2003, recounting the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe through word and song, and was based on his 2000 opera cowritten with Robert Wilson, POEtry. It also features new and very different versions of "The Bed" and "Perfect Day", two of the best-known songs in Reed's catalog, and the noise music song "Fire Music". In addition to Reed, the album features a number of guest vocalists including Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Antony Hegarty, Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe. The producer, Hal Willner, had previously overseen the Poe tribute album Closed on Account of Rabies. It is the final solo rock album by Reed, as his final overall solo album consisted entirely of meditational new age music, and his final rock album was a collaboration with Metallica.
The recording was simultaneously released as a two-disc set of recordings and in an edited single-disc version.
Painter and director Julian Schnabel created the cover.
All songs written by Lou Reed.
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