One of the marks of a great artist is that their work seems endless at the time, and it’s hard to pick out the road they’re taking
with albums that don’t seem as impactful as their earliest work. Only later does the path they’ve taken become clearer. Lou Reed’s career had already been going for 25 years before he released
Magic
And
Loss
in 1992. And while it had the marks of a lateperiod album at the time – a calmer mood, and reflections on mortality – it turned out to be just another milestone.