This title is one of a series of books which focus on epic albums of our time. Here, Andrew Hultkrans looks at Love's album Forever Changes .
Andrew Hultkrans is editor-in-chief of Bookforum magazine. Over the years, his writing has appeared in Wired, Salon, Artforum, Filmmaker, and Tin House.
Title: 2: Love's Forever Changes (33 1/3)
Author: Andrew Hultkrans
ISBN: 9780826414939
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 2003-10-30
Number of Pages: 136
Weight: 0.2269 kg
I love a critic who doesn't profess to be infallible, so Andrew Hultkrans immediately won me over by admitting he was previously absolutely, laughably wrong about Forever Changes...Hultkrans takes the record very, very seriously; accordingly, his book is a reverential, fastidious tome. * Seattle Weekly *
This former Bookforum editor openly identifies with this most apocalyptic of 60s El Lay albums, but he keeps his head in the game, fearlessly splashing around in lead Love-r Arthur Lee's disturbed psyche. He's sharp on the lyrics (maybe too sharp, given Lee's confused state) and slightly less so on the music, but he's killer on context: the album's fear, its overwhelming strangeness, its death-drive in a culture that only Lee knew was suffused with it. A- * Austin American-Statesman, 10/17/04 *
The first great title in the 33 series paints a vivid picture of Los Angeles in the 1960s and Arthur Lee's place in it-or, more accurately, just outside of it ... Andrew Hultkrans paints Lee as an American prophet-not predicting the future but passing judgment on society. It's perhaps the finest piece of writing on one of the finest psychedelic albums of that tumultuous decade. -- Stephen M. Deusner * Pitchfork *
