release date: Feb. 23, 1982
format: digital (1999 remaster)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,48]
producer: Lou Reed, Sean Fullan
label: RCA Records - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 2. "Women" - 3. "Underneath the Bottle" (live) - 7. "The Heroine" - 8. "Waves of Fear" (live) - 9. "The Day John Kennedy Died" - 10. "Heavenly Arms" (4 / 5)
11th studio album by Lou Reed is his return to RCA Records. The return to the label that released his most famous album Transformer (1972) is subtly commented in the cover art - being a retouched image from that album. It's a fine return to shape and form, and basically it continues very nicely where the predecessor, Growing Up in Public (1980) left. Here, things are just a little more controlled and it brings about a feeling of Lou back on the right track with something to say.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 5 / 5 stars ]
