🎹'Cale’s brand-new double LP, Mercy...written over several years, feels conditioned by the pandemic and other world tragedies and often seems to seek redemption in dark times.'-Steve Krakow👇
It’s hard to convey how much the music of John Cale means to me. The Welsh-born polymath cofounded the Velvet Underground, bringing a crucial avant-garde perspective to the band; he’d worked with experimental titans Tony Conrad and La Monte Young back when Lou Reed was still writing teenage doo-wop pastiches. When Cale left the band in 1968, they lost his exploratory edge and viola sawing. They started writing pop songs, and Cale did the same.
, Cale’s Velvet Underground bandmate and longtime collaborator, that recalls his classic symphonic 70s period—it gives him room to breathe in his own sense of time.unfortunately relies a little too heavily on chintzy digital beats and glitchy avant-garde electronica, both of which start to feel dated and played out. The album is also loaded with collaborations, not all of which feel necessary.
Some of the guest stars work great, though: on the epic art-rock ballad “Story of Blood,” Natalie Mering of Weyes Blood adds deep, ethereal background vocals that complement Cale’s baritone . The thoroughly weird “The Legal Status of Ice,” made with the unfortunately named Fat White Family, relies on thin computer-generated stuff but also uses what sounds like a touch of analog percussion, thus approaching actual rock ’n’ roll.
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