John Cale: Music For A New Society + M:FANS release on January 22

It's official John Cale's starkest album Music For A New Society will be re-released in expanded format on January 22 on Domino Records (vinyl, CD and digital).

33 years since its original arrival, January 22 will see the release of the re-mastered version of one of John Cale’s most unique and lauded solo records, Music For A New Society, alongside a visceral new reworking of the album under the title M:FANS – a record that explores the relationship between old and new, in terms of the sound and vision, and Cale’s memories of the experience, in terms of his life, and the recording.

Overseen by John Cale, the long out of print Music For A New Society has been completely re-mastered from the original files, while its download card includes three exclusive tracks: two outtakes from the original sessions, and one previously unheard gem – ‘Library of Force’ (not true: it's on the 1993 CD reissue - HCTF). M:FANS re-contextualises the original songs into radical new forms to resonate with the digital age, and contains the new recording of a previously lost track from the original session, ‘Back To The End’.

In 1982, Music For A New Society sounded exactly like its title: something futuristic, a new kind of songwriting exercise. Today, M:FANS is exactly that too: full of electrical crackle and disturbed frequencies, a different kind of dystopian future awaits.

Both albums will be distributed as a double-CD, 12" vinyl, and digitally. Pre-orders can be made via Domino Mart and on iTunes.

Music For A New Society:

1. Taking Your Life In Your Hands
2. Thoughtless Kind
3. Sanities
4. If You Were Still Around
5. (I Keep) A Close Watch / Mama's Song
6. Broken Bird
7. Chinese Envoy
8. Changes Made
9. Damn Life
10. Risé, Sam And Rimsky-Korsakov
11. In The Library of Force (erroneously labeled as previously unreleased) - Download Only for the vinyl version
12. Chinese Envoy (outtakes) - Download Only for the vinyl version
13. Thoughtless Kind (outtakes) - Download Only for the vinyl version

M:FANS:

1. Prelude
2. If You Were Still Around
3. Taking Your Life In Your Hands
4. Thoughtless Kind
5. Sanctus (Sanities Mix)
6. Broken Bird
7. Chinese Envoy
8. Changes Made
9. Library of Force (feat. Man In The Book Excerpt)
10. Close Watch
11. If You Were Still Around (Choir Reprise)
12. Back To The End

Watch the video for the M:FANS version of Close Watch, with Amber Coffman (Dirty Projectors) sharing the vocal duties. The clip was directed by Abigail Portner.

» john-cale.com