This five-track EP (available on 12” vinyl as well as CD) precedes a full-length album that’s also earmarked for release this year. As such, it marks the Double Six debut of super-prolific muso JOHN CALE.
Atonal raspberry vibrations and wild acoustic abandon (via opener ‘Catastrofunk’) is how the 69yr old goes about shunning the material world. Odd it may well be(as well as ever so slightly tongue-in-cheek), but the former Velvet Underground man well afford the eccentricity:
“I got nothin’ to prove” declares the veteran at one stage.
Slower goes the backward ballad ‘Whadyamean By That’ before the empty clank of ‘Hey Ray’ is transformed from a skeletal blues grind by a strange dialogue of harmonies that takes precedent over a loo-oose 6T’s retrospective.
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As you’d expect, it’s surreal, but sturdy stuff, rounded off in style with the ultimate and gorgeously understated New Wave headspinner ‘Perfection’. CALE may be a pensioner, but he effortlessly defies his senior-citizen status with this fresh collection.
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