- rock, alternative rock
- 75 min
- 21 tracks
- Reprise Records
The Raven is the nineteenth solo studio album by American rock musician Lou Reed, released on January 28, 2003 by Sire Records. It is a concept album, recounting the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe through word and song, and was based on his 2000 opera co-written with Robert Wilson, POEtry.
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Grave, bleak, spare and character-led.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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Metacritic 54/100
- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- Blender2/5 ★
- Christgau’s Consumer GuideB+
- Entertainment WeeklyC−
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Q3/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- Mojo3.5/5 ★
- NME6/10
- Pitchfork2/10
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Tracks
- 1Overture1:06
- 2Edgar Allan Poe3:21
- 3Call on Me2:08
- 4The Valley of Unrest2:27
- 5A Thousand Departed Friends4:58
- 6Change2:18
- 7The Bed3:32
- 8Perfect Day3:28
- 9The Raven6:30
- 10Balloon1:02
- 11Broadway Song3:12
- 12Blind Rage3:26
- 13Burning Embers3:22
- 14Vanishing Act5:23
- 15Guilty4:55
- 16I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)6:59
- 17Science of the Mind1:36
- 18Hop Frog1:47
- 19Tripitena’s Speech2:19
- 20Who Am I (Tripitena’s Song)4:31
- 21Guardian Angel6:52
21 tracks, 75 minutes.
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