John Cale announces MERCY, his first new album of original songs in a decade, out January 20th via Double Six / Domino. For nearly 60 years, or at least since he was a young Welshman who moved to New York and formed The Velvet Underground, Cale has been reinventing his music with dazzling and inspiring regularity. There was the bewitching chamber folk of Paris 1919 followed instantly by the gnarled rock of Fear, the provocative and spare song cycle Music for a New Society followed more than 30 years later by mighty and unabashed electronic updates. Once again, here is Cale, reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. His engrossing 12-track MERCY moves through true dark-night-of-the-soul electronics toward vulnerable love songs and hopeful considerations for the future.

On MERCY, Cale enlists some of music’s most curious young minds: Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, Actress. They’re only some of the astounding cast here, brilliant musicians who climb inside Cale’s consummate vision of the world and help him redecorate there. Cale turned 80 in March, and he’s watched as many peers have passed away, particularly during the last decade. MERCY is the continuation of a long career’s work with wonder. Cale has always searched for new ways to explore old ideas of alienation, hurt, and joy; MERCY is the latest transfixing find of this unsatisfied mind.

Label
Universal
Genre
Pop & Rock LP - SIDE A
Mercy (Feat. Laurel Halo)
Marilyn Monroe's Legs (Beauty Elsewhere)
Noise Of You
LP - SIDE B
Story Of Blood (Feat. Weyes Blood)
Time Stands Still (Feat. Sylvan Esso)
Moonstruck (Nico's Song)
LP - SIDE C
Everlasting Days (Feat. Animal Collective)
Night Crawling
Not The End Of The World
LP - SIDE D
I Know You're Happy (Feat. Tei Shi
The Legal Status Of Ice (Feat. Fat White White Family)
Out Your Window

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