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Feb 3, 2016To hear the sonic progression between the two distinct albums is to hear an artist constantly evolving, reevaluating and creating at a vital pace. In this, Cale proves himself to be, if not the most culturally significant member of the Velvet Underground, certainly the most musically so.
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Jan 27, 2016If M:FANS represents a world that is colder and less forgiving than the time and place that spawned Music for a New Society, it also confirms that Cale is still a strong and vital artist, and one capable of offering two very different sets of perspectives on these songs that are both bold and compelling listening.
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Jan 22, 2016The original record’s improvisational nature is still here but hidden, its minimalist touches are scant.
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Jan 21, 2016M:FANS is certainly a fair deal more interesting than yet another note-for-note trek down memory lane.
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Jan 20, 2016Music for a New Society was characterised by its sparseness and the space between its sounds. M:FANS fills them completely and yet retains the sense of dark weirdness; it is a completely different album that conveys the same disturbing, disturbed atmosphere. At 73 years of age, Cale is still making some of the most ambitious, exciting music out there
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Jan 19, 2016It could so easily have been an ill-fitting coat worn loose on the shoulders of the original’s stark beauty. But these slabs of noise, where Cale picks at the wires like a scab, scarring and slashing old canvases to remake the old, add to rather than re-hash his legacy.
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MojoJan 7, 2016It proves to be an oblique, sometimes outre, but always artistic reinvestigation rather than an indulgent lap of honour around erstwhile glories. [Feb 2016, p.94]
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Q MagazineJan 7, 2016There are moments of real pathos. [Feb 2016, p.108]
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Jan 27, 2016The palette of the acronymic M:FANS, issued with a handsomely remastered version of the original Music For A New Society, is largely electronic, the sound of a septuagenarian composer and rock dude using the past as a bridge to the present.
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Jan 7, 2016M:FANS perhaps loses some of those dissonant, euphoric yet deeply melancholic moments that Music For A New Society has to give us; tracks where it seems a self-consuming feat for Cale to bring himself to sing. But the two work in a partnership rather than against each other.
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UncutJan 7, 2016It all takes a bit of getting use to.... [M:FANS} is yet another fascinating maverick move. [Feb 2016, p.70]
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Feb 25, 2016M:FANS is less reclusive, just by virtue of its premise--Cale is collaborating with himself, the ultimate glum foil--but also because it fills every swatch of white space with his later-career electro-industrial leanings.
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The WireFeb 18, 2016M:FANS sounds way too much of its moment: it sounds just how you expect right now to sound. Worse, maybe: it actually sounds like a few years back. [Jan 2016, p.84]