{"id":10368,"date":"2016-03-25T05:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10368"},"modified":"2016-03-19T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:02:31","slug":"album-mini-review-john-cale-mfans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/25\/album-mini-review-john-cale-mfans\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: John Cale &#8212; M\/FANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10372\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/john_cale_mfans-1.jpg\" alt=\"john_cale_mfans\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/john_cale_mfans-1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/john_cale_mfans-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/john_cale_mfans-1-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B017WXLPTC&amp;asins=B017WXLPTC&amp;linkId=AFYZZQEJ5UMQYPHO&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <strong>Leonard Cohen<\/strong>, <strong>Diamanda Galas<\/strong>, <strong>Einst\u00fcrzende Neubaten<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Cale<\/strong> has never been one to trade on his <strong>Velvet Underground<\/strong> fame; he&#8217;s long since left behind the music of those days. His main instrument these days is keyboard, not cello. On <i>Music for a New Society\/M:FANS<\/i>, he presents a deeply melodic, meditative approach. His voice serves as a handy abrasive element that nicely sets off the near-pop textures of his electric pianos. \u201cTaking Life in Your Hands\u201d features keening cello scrapes that fly in and out of the mix like transparent demons in a haunted house. Industrial sounds form the basis of the eerie \u201cThoughtless Kind.\u201d \u201cSanctus (Sanities)\u201d feels like the VU classic \u201cThe Gift\u201d as re-imagined by <strong>Phil Spector<\/strong>. Foreboding and more than a little challenging, <i>M:FANS<\/i> will please admirers, but isn&#8217;t likely to win Cale many new followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Leonard Cohen, Diamanda Galas, Einst\u00fcrzende Neubaten John Cale has never been one to trade on his Velvet Underground fame; he&#8217;s long since left behind the music of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,49,65],"tags":[1176],"class_list":["post-10368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avant-garde","category-new-release","category-review","tag-john-cale","cat-7-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10374,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions\/10374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}