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内省的なコンセプト・アルバム。必要最小限の簡素な表現が聴き手の想像力をちくちくと刺戟する。言葉の意味を理解できない相手にもメッセージは確実に伝わるだろう。詩的な短篇小説と難解な哲学書を同時に読んでいるような気分を体験させてくれる音盤だ。
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After spending a good many years searching for his main line, Lou Reed tapped into a fresh vein of creativity with 1989's
New York and
Songs for Drella, a tribute to Andy Warhol made with his former Velvet Underground partner John Cale. With two friends suffering from cancer--one being songwriter Doc Pomus--Reed went to work on his most soul-searching effort to date. The rollicking opening cut, "What's Good," suggests he found the rock & roll heart in such tragedy, but once the supple rhythm section is supplanted by a slow, time-checking click, the reality of death's ominous shadow casts a doom and gloom on the proceedings. The result is an extremely grim, yet fascinating, song cycle.
--Rob O'Connor