John Cale

MERCY review | Avant-garde hero reinvents once more amid end-of-days despair

★★★★☆
You don’t co-found a group like The Velvet Underground without being deemed a truly pioneering force in music – a term used too often in cultural commentary nowadays. Yet John Cale, now in his 81st year, shows his progressive, experimental spirit is still a forced to be reckoned with on his moody, forward-thinking new album, MERCY, which features a number of contemporary avant-garde additions.