release date: Feb. 23, 1982
format: digital (1999 remaster)
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,82]
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 more than fine return to shape and form, and in some ways it continues more succesfully where the predecessor, Growing Up in Public (1980) left us. On this, things are much more focused with several strong compositions where "Heavenly Arms" underline the man's true potential, and it brings about a sensation of Lou Reed being back on the right track with something to say, and something to offer.
Recommended.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 5 / 5 stars ]
