Today, the legendary John Cale releases new single “Shark-Shark” from his new album, POPtical Illusion, out June 14th. Following lead single “How We See The Light,” “Shark-Shark” is a slightly menacing, yet wholly delightful, heavy dance jam. Various versions of Cale’s voice cut under and across a throbbing industrial beat made rich with punchy drum machines, before ending with a scabrous guitar solo as mean as something Cale might have...
Cale has often said that something shifted inside his mind during the pandemic, realizing that, nearing 80, he was living and working through something that many of his past contemporaries weren’t. He wanted to document it. He wrote more than 80 songs in a period of a little over a year, collectively surveying the range of human experience in the process—humor bled into frustration, regret gave way to forgiveness, sadness...
John Cale announces MERCY, his first new album of original songs in a decade, out January 20th via Double Six / Domino, and presents a new single/video, “STORY OF BLOOD feat. Weyes Blood.” 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. There was the...
Today, John Cale presents “Night Crawling,” his first new music since 2020 when he released the single, “Lazy Day,” and collaborated with Kelly Lee Owens on “Corner of My Sky.” “Night Crawling” is a taste of much more to come from Cale, and precedes his upcoming UK tour, which includes his first performances since pre-pandemic. Cale wrote “Night Crawling” with a nod to 70's NYC pre-disco, recalling...
John Cale returns with a new single and video, “Lazy Day,” his first new music since his recent collaboration on Kelly Lee Owens’ “Corner of My Sky” and 2016’s M:FANS, a reworking of Music For A New Society.
“Lazy Day” is gradual, inching forward with skipping percussion and aperiodic piano. Over droning organ, Cale sings: “Tie me down / Lazy Day / Tie me down / My lazy day...
John Cale will re-issue the classic live album Fragments of a Rainy Season, featuring his revered interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ amongst many solo versions from his enduring catalogue and previously unreleased outtakes, on December 9th 2016 through Double Six / Domino.
Alongside the announcement, Cale has shared a new video for ‘Hallelujah’, directed by Abby Portner – watch it now HERE and read more on his version as...
