Ecstasy

Rolling Stone (1/4/01, p.114) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000". Rolling Stone (4/13/00, pp.123-4) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...His strongest music ever....impressive. Dominated emotionally by dark songs about extreme sex and relationships gone sour....a complex, musically gorgeous synthesis of the obsessions that powered BERLIN and his great marriage albums of the early '80s..." Alternative Press (5/00, p.102) - 4 out of 5 - "...It's good....[it] says an awful lot. More, in fact, than Lou's said in 10 years." The Wire (5/00, p.50) - "...Indispensable for...the album's monstrous 18 minute masterpiece, 'Like A Possum', alone....the album has other strong moments as well..." CMJ (5/00, p.68) - "...This 'sounds' good....stripped-down, with a lot of guitar, bass and drums and a very judicious use of cellos, tenor saxes and an electric violin....Reed rarely sounds less than sincere..." Mojo (Publisher) (4/00, pp.88-9) - "...It's slick....[It] is definitely a record for Lou Reed fans. If you're a happy regular shopper at Lou's Boutique, this one'll fit nicely on the shelf alongside all the others..." NME (Magazine) (4/15/00, p.34) - 7 out of 10 - "...Full of viciousness and confusion, another wrathful passage from the greatest-living curmudgeon in rock. Bless him."