Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood
Seventy years old and still more musically adventurous than his peers, John Cale teams up with Danger Mouse for the relentlessly catchy collaboration \"I Wanna Talk 2 U.\" \"Scotland Yard\" turns up the paranoia with keyboards that evoke a world spiraling out of control. Cale\'s never been one to play it safe; even his most commercial moments are littered with experimental quirks that underscore his avant-garde classical origins. He messes with Auto-Tune for the club-ready \"December Rains,\" in which he sounds like a sedate composer surrounded by technological wizardry. \"Nookie Wood\" throws synthetic freakouts into Cale\'s spy-novel attack. Emerging from the craziness is a sweet love song, \"Living with You,\" which beats with the feeling of a human heart after all the glitz and glamour subsides. Cale is far too talented a musician to make music the easiest or most accessible way. He sometimes overthinks a situation, but he always finds something unexpected on his trip to the other end of the recording studio.
John Cale's new studio album, featuring some work from Danger Mouse, is definitely strange. But the album's lacquered surface coats the chaos and imposes unwelcome order.
Despite being the classically trained and avant-garde-credentialed half of The Velvet Underground’s core, John Cale wound up embracing pop music far more enthusiastically than Lou Reed. Granted, that embrace was always a cool, prickly one. Starting with his first post-VU solo album, 1970’s Vintage Violence, Cale has…
Yet more proof that the coolest member of the Velvet Underground has still got it.
Forty-seven years after co-founding The Velvet Underground, 43 years after producing The Stooges’ debut, 36 years after doing the same for The Modern Lovers, 70-year-old Welshman John Cale releases his 15th solo album.
Audacious rock veteran emerges from new cocoon, glistening simultaneously fresh and accessible
A visceral, thrilling ride, capable of soundtracking any seedy disco on the outskirts of Nookie Wood.
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For better or worse, John Cale's first album in seven years is one of his most accessible. Rather than giving in to his outlandishly adventu...
New Adventures in Nookie Wood is brimming with ideas, and the album's chopped-up, heavy aesthetic knits them together in a way that means that not one ever feels misdirected.
ClashMusic: Read an album review of John Cale's new album 'Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood'. Coming after last September’s ‘Extra Playful’ EP for the Double Six label.
John Cale's mischievous wit is alive and well on this new solo outing, writes <strong>Ally Carnwath</strong>
John Cale's first album since 2005 mostly sounds like pop music made by or for Daleks, writes <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>