John Cale : Mercy

John CaleannouncesMERCY, his first new album of original songs in a decade, outJanuary 20th via Double Six / Domino. For nearly 60 years, or at least since he was a young Welshman who moved to New York and formedThe Velvet Underground, Cale has been reinventing his music with dazzling and inspiring regularity. There was the bewitching chamber folk ofParis 1919followed instantly by the gnarled rock ofFear,the provocative and spare song cycleMusic for a New Societyfollowed more than 30 years later by mighty and unabashed electronic updates. Once again, here is Cale, reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. His engrossing 12-trackMERCYmoves through true dark-night-of-the-soul electronics toward vulnerable love songs and hopeful considerations for the future.

OnMERCY, Cale enlists some of musics most curious young minds:Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, Ac