Title: Bitter, mournful, haunting, tentative - just like life
Review: A musical artist's life work should never be summed-up in one album, and especially one song, but if I had to pick that one song, it is "Dying on the Vine".For everyone who still has or remembers their mother, the taste of love gone wrong, and the sense of place askew, listen to Cale's weary voice singing lyrics for crying. "Chinese Takeaway" is as winsome as last year's history, and "Satellite Walk" is delightfully perverse. If Cale was not producing music in the 80s to suit the pandering critics, well, this was a good thing. Fans of John Cale's music should not avoid this album. Cale should be proud of the truth in this set of painful words and haunting melodies.
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