Released in 2013, Original Album Series offers 5 Lou Reed albums from the middle period of his solo career — 1989's New York to 2000's Ecstasy.
The first two albums of the series, New York and Songs for Drella, are the most essential of the bunch, but this is a quick and cheap way to get Magic and Loss, Set the Twilight Reeling, and Ecstasy as well, since each has its moments.
New York remains a high point in Reed’s career – his love/hate letter to the city where he grew and up, while Songs for Drella followed the very next year – a very beautiful and satisfying collaboration with John Cale that remembers the life of Andy Warhol. Magic and Loss from 1992, is not an album you’d reach for to put on at a party, but it remains a truly stunning piece of work. A quiet meditation..
…on life and death, told with brutal honesty as Reed recalls the passing of two friends.
Set The Twilight Reeling (1996) and Ecstasy (2000) didn’t benefit from the general goodwill and momentum that the three previous albums enjoyed, but they are both excellent. Reed is as witty and literate as ever, and Ecstasy sees the return of Mike Rathke, who played on New York and Magic and Loss (he also co-wrote many songs on the Magic and Loss album).
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