Name: POPtical Illusion, By: John Cale
Brand: RHYTHM
SKU: DS178CD
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Multicolor album cover collage with bold white title text and abstract shapes, cover art

Album CD and matching cover sleeve with multicolor collage artwork and bold title text

POPtical Illusion, By: John Cale

DS178CD

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POPtical Illusion, By: John Cale - Model Number: DS178CD

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Despite the album™s playful title, Cale™s second album in just over a year still contains the same feelings of fierce and inquisitive rage that were present in 2023 album Mercy. He remains angry, still incensed by the willful destruction that unchecked capitalists and unrepentant conmen have hoisted upon the wonders of this world and the goodness of its people.

But this is not at all Mercy II, or some collection of castoffs, as throughout his career of more than six decades, Cale has never been much for repetition. His vanguard-shaping enthusiasms have shifted among ecstatic classicism and unbound rock, classic songcraft and electronic reimagination with proud restlessness.

And so, on POPtical Illusion, he foregoes the illustrious cast to burrow mostly alone into mazes of synthesizers and samples, organs and pianos, with words that, as far as Cale goes, constitute a sort of swirling hope, a sage insistence that change is yet possible. Produced by Cale and longtime artistic partner Nita Scott, POPtical Illusion is the work of someone trying to turn toward the future “ exactly as Cale always has

Tracks

God Made Me Do It (don't ask me again)
Davies and Wales
Calling You Out
Edge of Reason
I'm Angry
How We See The Light
Company Commander
Setting Fires
Shark-Shark
Funkball the Brewster
All To The Good
Laughing In My Sleep
There Will Be No River