Black Acetate
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Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings
- Summary: A bit more rock-oriented than its predecessor, 'Acetate' is nevertheless another experimental effort from the now-63-year-old Cale.
- Record Label: Astralwerks
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Mixed: 8 out of 11
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MojoNot every moment is transcendent.... But otherwise, this is that rare thing, an album that shares new pleasures each time you hear it, made by someone who's still excited by music. [Nov 2005, p.102]
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New Musical Express (NME)The sound of a pioneer who refuses to stop innovating. [8 Oct 2005, p.45]
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Black Acetate is in equal measures, serious and mocking, threatening and comforting, ambient and rowdy.
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UrbA strangely satisfying pop record. [Jan/Feb 2006, p.92]
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Where Cale flaps up is in not allowing himself enough space for nuance atop his overdriven guitars, forcing the deployment of gaudy keyboard settings to match the guitars’ "intensity" and even fumbling into a bona fide mall-punk chorus in "Perfect."
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Although the album doesn't hang together well, the few great songs are dark, rich, and instantly memorable.
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Cale squanders whatever momentum he accrued on the estimable avant-pop of 2003's HoboSapiens by adorning these new songs with such unflattering, generic alternarock textures that they often render their author unrecognizable at best, and irrelevant at worst.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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kissjNov 16, 2005some velvet sound
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BobdDec 23, 2005
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waltbDec 18, 2005it's not his best, but it's better than HoboSapiens or Walking on Locusts.
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