Standard 2LP edition.
 
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.
 
Tracklist
A1. MERCY feat. Laurel Halo
A2. MARILYN MONROE'S LEGS (beauty elsewhere) feat. Actress
A3. NOISE OF YOU
B1. STORY OF BLOOD feat. Weyes Blood
B2. TIME STANDS STILL feat. Sylvan Esso
B3. MOONSTRUCK (Nico’s Song)
C1. EVERLASTING DAYS feat. Animal Collective
C2. NIGHT CRAWLING / NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
D1. I KNOW YOU’RE HAPPY feat. Tei Shi
D2. THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE feat. Fat White Family
D3. OUT YOUR WINDOW