John Cale shares new single and video "NOISE OF YOU"
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John Cale shares new single and video "NOISE OF YOU"

Today, John Cale unveils “NOISE OF YOU,” the new single/video off his first new album in a decade, MERCY, out January 20th on Double Six / Domino. “NOISE OF YOU” follows last year’s “shimmering” (Rolling Stone) single “NIGHT CRAWLING,” and “STORY OF BLOOD,” Cale’s “haunting” and “otherworldly” (The New York Times) collaboration with Weyes Blood. Sensual and svelte, “NOISE OF YOU” looks to be uplifted by our most ordinary but transcendent mechanism – love – as Cale croons about waiting to hear a paramour’s footfalls on the stairs during an idyllic winter. The accompanying video, directed by Pepi Ginsberg, was filmed around New York City, capturing projected images of Cale across spaces meaningful to his storied career.

Of the track, Cale says: “I don’t tend to romanticize the idea of love. It represents ‘need’ and that’s not something I’m particularly comfortable with.  When it gets ahold of you though - don’t let go - no matter how many times you mess it up!”

Of the video, Ginsberg adds: “I was so inspired by John’s relationship to process and collaboration and wanted to mirror his approach to art in this video for ‘NOISE OF YOU,’ which John describes as a love song. Setting out to make a ‘moving’ portrait of John, we have mapped images and video of John’s life over his former home of New York City, creating a conversation between past and present, reflecting the way that distant, and sometimes dissonant, voices can reach across divides of space and time to speak their own language of love.”

Next month, Cale continues his UK tour before heading to Europe.

John Cale Tour Dates (Rescheduled Dates in Bold)
Mon 6th Feb - Liverpool, UK @ Philharmonic Hall
Wed 8th Feb - London, UK @ The Palladium
Fri 10th Feb - Bexhill-On-The-Sea, UK @ De La Warr Pavilion
Sat 11th Feb - Birmingham, UK @ Town Hall
Sun 12th Feb - Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange
Tues 14th Feb - Paris, FR @ Salle Pleyel
Thurs 16th Feb - Karlsruhe, DE @ Tollhaus
Fri 17th Feb - Geneza, CH @ Festival Antigel
Sun 19th Feb - Frankfurt, DE @ Batschkapp
Mon 20th Feb - Dudelange, LU @ Centre Culturel Régional
Wed 22nd Feb - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Thurs 23rd Feb - Antwerp, BE @ De Roma
Sat 25th Feb - Hamburg, DE @ Kampnagel
Sun 26th Feb - Leipzig, DE @ Haus Auensee
Tues 28th Feb - Berlin, DE @ Verti Music Hall
Wed 1st Mar - Prague, CZ @ Archa Theatre
Thurs 2nd Mar - Vienna, AT @ Porgy & Bess
Sat 4th Mar - Wels, AT @ Stadttheater
Sun 5th Mar - Munich, DE @ Muffathalle

John Cale MERCY

Album | 20th January 2023

For nearly 60 years, John Cale has been reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. MERCY, Cale’s first full album in a decade, moves through true dark-night-of-the-soul electronic torment toward vulnerable love songs and hopeful considerations for the future with the help of some of music’s most curious young minds. Cale has always searched for new ways to explore old ideas of alienation, hurt, and joy; MERCY is the latest transfixing find of this unsatisfied mind. 

Tracklisting

  • 1MERCY feat. Laurel Halo
  • 2MARILYN MONROE'S LEGS (beauty elsewhere) feat. Actress
  • 3NOISE OF YOU
  • 4STORY OF BLOOD feat. Weyes Blood
  • 5TIME STANDS STILL feat. Sylvan Esso
  • 6MOONSTRUCK (Nico's Song)
  • 7EVERLASTING DAYS feat. Animal Collective
  • 8NIGHT CRAWLING
  • 9NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
  • 10THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE feat. Fat White Family
  • 11I KNOW YOU'RE HAPPY feat. Tei Shi
  • 12OUT YOUR WINDOW

John Cale MERCY

Album | 20th January 2023

For nearly 60 years, John Cale has been reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. MERCY, Cale’s first full album in a decade, moves through true dark-night-of-the-soul electronic torment toward vulnerable love songs and hopeful considerations for the future with the help of some of music’s most curious young minds. Cale has always searched for new ways to explore old ideas of alienation, hurt, and joy; MERCY is the latest transfixing find of this unsatisfied mind. 

Tracklisting

  • 1MERCY feat. Laurel Halo
  • 2MARILYN MONROE'S LEGS (beauty elsewhere) feat. Actress
  • 3NOISE OF YOU
  • 4STORY OF BLOOD feat. Weyes Blood
  • 5TIME STANDS STILL feat. Sylvan Esso
  • 6MOONSTRUCK (Nico's Song)
  • 7EVERLASTING DAYS feat. Animal Collective
  • 8NIGHT CRAWLING
  • 9NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
  • 10THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE feat. Fat White Family
  • 11I KNOW YOU'RE HAPPY feat. Tei Shi
  • 12OUT YOUR WINDOW
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