Composer and Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale has introduced his new album Poptical Phantasm with a video for his new music “How We See the Gentle.” The document arrives June 14 (by way of Double Six/Domino). The only demanding situations the anger operating thru the remainder of the document with a little bit of longing and mirrored image, captured in its Pepi Ginsberg–directed song video that includes papier-mâché heads. Watch it beneath.
Poptical Phantasm used to be co-produced through Cale and his longtime inventive spouse Nita Scott in his Los Angeles studio. Throughout its 13-track runtime, the album unearths Cale taking part in synthesizers, organs, pianos, and extra.
Poptical Phantasm is Cale’s 2d album inside of a 12 months, arriving carefully at the heels of 2023’s Mercy. That document, which incorporated the singles “Evening Crawling” and the Weyes Blood–starring “Tale of Blood,” featured contributions from Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, and Actress.
Examine Brian Eno and John Cale’s “Lay My Love” at No. 232 on “The 250 Easiest Songs of the Nineteen Nineties.”
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Poptical Phantasm:
01 God Made Me Do It (Don’t Ask Me Once more)
02 Davies and Wales
03 Calling You Out
04 Fringe of Explanation why
05 I’m Offended
06 How We See the Gentle
07 Corporate Commander
08 Surroundings Fires
09 Shark-Shark
10 Funkball the Brewster
11 All to the Excellent
12 Guffawing in My Sleep
13 There Will Be No River
