Animal Serenade

Animal Serenade
Live album by
ReleasedMarch 23, 2004
RecordedJune 24, 2003
GenreRock
LabelSire/Reprise
ProducerLou Reed and Fernando Saunders
Lou Reed chronology
The Raven
(2003)
Animal Serenade
(2004)
Le Bataclan '72
(2004)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic71/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]
Blender [3]
Pitchfork6.5/10[4]
Rolling Stone [5]

Animal Serenade is a live album by American rock musician Lou Reed, recorded in Los Angeles at the Wiltern Theatre in 2003 after The Raven. The show features a drummer-less band (including Mike Rathke on guitar/synth, bassist, vocalist Fernando Saunders, and the cello of Jane Scarpantoni). In addition, Anohni, of Antony and the Johnsons fame, contributes background vocals throughout and sings the lead on "Set the Twilight Reeling" and "Candy Says".

Fernando Saunders plays bass and other instruments. He did background vocals on most songs and sang lead vocals on "Tell It to Your Heart" and "Reviens Cherie", scat on "Sunday Morning".

Three songs were performed during the concert that did not appear on the album: "Sweet Jane", "The Last Shot" and "Perfect Day" (sung in duet with Antony). "Sweet Jane" is available by digital download.

  1. ^ "Animal Serenade by Lou Reed". Metacritic. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  2. ^ Deming, Mark. Animal Serenade at AllMusic
  3. ^ Blender (magazine) review
  4. ^ May, Stephen (July 14, 2014). "Lou Reed - Animal Serenade". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
  5. ^ Hoard, Christian (2004-04-07). "Lou Reed: Animal Serenade : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 4 September 2011.