John Cale
Album Title: Mercy
Record Label: Domino
Review by John Noyd
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John Cale - Mercy
The indelible infused with the incredible, Cale’s methodical plodding gels into spellbinding mindfulness. Tender but taunting, lively and laconic, “Mercy,” saunters in haunting honesty, placating pacing mania through somber homilies. Mesmerizing in deliberate directness, the iconoclastic master creates gauzed gazes glazed in chamber music synths while studio maneuvered grooves slither in liquid drifting mystery. Incandescent mantras march among regimented empathy as romantic candor hushed in plush sculptures and culled from alien landscapes open wounded hearts and nurse weathered memories. Enlisting a litany of talented acolytes including Laurel Halo, Weyes Blood and Animal Collective, Cale solidifies his cutting-edge reputation with futuristic flair, mobilizing sizeable ideas in celestial elegance. Electronic tone poems tinged in ephemeral menace composing compassionate fragments coalescing in narcotic beats sweeping beneath tentative meditations.
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