Music for a New Society

by John Cale

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Recorded largely improvisationally during a period of intense personal crisis, John Cale's 'Music for a New Society' is a profoundly harrowing, bleakly beautiful singer-songwriter record. The former Velvet Underground member utilizes painfully sparse, dissonant arrangements and agonizingly emotive vocals to construct an incredibly dark, deeply melancholic atmosphere of total isolation.

Genres

  • Art Rock
  • Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist

  1. Taking Your Life In Your Hands
  2. Thoughtless Kind
  3. Santies
  4. If You Were Still Around
  5. Close Watch
  6. Mama's Song
  7. Broken Bird
  8. Chinese Envoy
  9. Changes Made
  10. Damn Life
  11. Risé, Sam And Rimsky Korsakov