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Music For A New Society - M:FANS

John Cale

Music For A New Society - M:FANS

The ex-Velvet Underground member has reworked his 1982 record as M:FANS, casting it in a new light after the death of bandmate Lou Reed

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Downtown Records
UK Release date
22/01/2016
US Release date
22/01/2016
  1. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    The music remains just as vital as before, updated for a modern audience while providing a definite point of reference
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  2. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Doesn’t exactly make its parent album an easier listen, but it allows Cale to offer a fascinating new perspective on his darkest work
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  3. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    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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  4. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    The two work in a partnership rather than against each other
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  5. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    M:FANS is certainly a fair deal more interesting than yet another note-for-note trek down memory lane
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  6. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    It is a completely different album that conveys the same disturbing, disturbed atmosphere
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  7. 8.0 |   All Music

    Confirms that Cale is still a strong and vital artist
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  8. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Kinda brilliant
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  9. 6.0 |   The Music

    It's a curious twist for the initiated, and a lesson in bitter as coal songwriting for newbs
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  10. 6.0 |   Pitchfork

    M: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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  11. 4.0 |   The FT

    It has curio value at best
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