John Cale - MERCY [2LP]

Double Six Records

£30.58

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: DS122LP / DIS122LP
Barcode: 0887832012216
Release Date: 20 Jan 2023
Genre: Rock

 John Cale’s ‘MERCY’ is his first new album of original songs in a decade. 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. 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 who climb inside Cale’s consummate vision of the world and help him redecorate there.
 Throughout 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.
 CD into printed inner wallet with 16-page booklet.
 Double vinyl into shared printed inner sleeve.
 Press - Reviews in Mojo, Uncut, Record Collector, DIY, Electronic Sound, Reader's Digest, Loud & Quiet, The Quietus. Features in Mojo, The Times, The Guardian.
 Radio - BBC 6 Music, Apple Music 1, Radio X, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Wales.
 Tourdates - February 6 Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 8 London Palladium, 10 Bexhill on Sea De La Warr Pavilion, Feb 11 Birmingham Town Hall, 12 Cambridge Corn Exchange.

Tracklisting
MERCY feat. Laurel Halo
MARILYN MONROE'S LEGS (beauty elsewhere) feat. Actress
NOISE OF YOU
STORY OF BLOOD feat. Weyes Blood
TIME STANDS STILL feat. Sylvan Esso
MOONSTRUCK (Nico’s Song)
EVERLASTING DAYS feat. Animal Collective
NIGHT CRAWLING
NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
I KNOW YOU’RE HAPPY feat. Tei Shi
THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE feat. Fat White Family
OUT YOUR WINDOW