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Track Listings
| 1. I Wanna Talk 2 U (feat. Danger Mouse) |
| 2. Scotland Yard |
| 3. Hemmingway |
| 4. Face to the Sky |
| 5. Nookie Wood |
| 6. December Rains |
| 7. Mary |
| 8. Vampire Cafe |
| 9. Mothra |
| 10. Living with You |
| 11. Midnight Feast |
| 12. Sandman (Flying Dutchman) |
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Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood is a title to set tongues wagging and minds wondering, but for an album that seems born of a return to John’s youth it seems safely apt in its mischievousness. After nearly 50 years of making music it’s still freshly evident that Cale draws from a make believe world first imagined by his young self. Track title ‘Mothra’ pays homage to the Japanese monster from Godzilla movies. As a boy practicing scales in grey skied Welsh valleys such fantastical flights of fancy must have been reassuring of the path that was potentially about to unfold for him. Lyrics reveal even more explicitly earlier incarnations of Cale and in the same song we relive an encounter with a local bully, "You see me running, you see me climb, reading my books and always trying, laughing and teasing and I love to play, dreaming my dreams are never far away" Elsewhere Cale’s doing what he does best, guiding listeners through the places, politics, and people of the day. A wide range of human experience is reflected and often it’s for the listener to dig deeper to find what’s being documented. Sometimes however part of the tapestry is pulled soberingly into focus; when listening to ‘Scotland Yard’ while the Leveson enquiry plays out, it’s all too easy to recognize the guilty. As a producer Cale has reached a new plateau on this record. At the albums most maximal, it feels like looking at a collection of precious stones. Myriads of differently coloured and textured surfaces carefully placed together, each finding their own space to beckon the ear. It’s a blend of chaos and beauty in equal measure and a testament to the exploratory spirit at work, which ensures that as always, there's something new to the ears here.
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CD .. Nookie Wood
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I read a review in Uncut magazine which praised this album and promptly dumped it with six stars! I read an account somewhere else which said this LP amounted to Cale's adventures in dance music.
The lack of quality reviewers for someone as important to the rock world as Cale is tremendously disappointing (but perhaps shouldn't be surprising). At time of writing, there are already two reviews on this page by people who clearly know what they're on about.
If you have never heard John Cale before, aside from his VU work, this is a good place to start. I'm a little biased because I've immersed myself in all of his solo work and aside from a lean (but still interesting) period in the mid-Eighties, I love every album.
But to try to be objective, it's fair to say 'Nookie Wood' continues the hot streak evident on 'Hobosapiens' and 'blackAcetate'-- while not as epic as the former, it's not as abrasive as the latter.
For those that were listening, last year's EP provides a worthy primer. I think it's one of the best albums of the year.
The lack of quality reviewers for someone as important to the rock world as Cale is tremendously disappointing (but perhaps shouldn't be surprising). At time of writing, there are already two reviews on this page by people who clearly know what they're on about.
If you have never heard John Cale before, aside from his VU work, this is a good place to start. I'm a little biased because I've immersed myself in all of his solo work and aside from a lean (but still interesting) period in the mid-Eighties, I love every album.
But to try to be objective, it's fair to say 'Nookie Wood' continues the hot streak evident on 'Hobosapiens' and 'blackAcetate'-- while not as epic as the former, it's not as abrasive as the latter.
For those that were listening, last year's EP provides a worthy primer. I think it's one of the best albums of the year.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
John Cale was seventy years old this year and on the evidence available
on his new album 'Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood' (just loving the title
Mr Cale!) he still has lead aplenty in his pencil. There's a vibrancy and
finesse in these twelve new songs which not only belies his many years in
the business but demonstrates beyond doubt that he remains a major force
in the contemporary musical firmament. The project has a blissfully dark
ambience shot through with flashes of wry humour and deft melodic and rhythmic
invention. His fine band : Dustin Boyer (guitars, synth and backing vocals);
Joey Maramba (Bass) and Michael Jerome Moore (Drums) cook up a hot broth of
gritty sound around Mr Cale's inimitably gruff vocals. The voice is in
remarkably good shape for a septuagenarian. The man can still hold a tune with
the best. Perhaps the most striking thing of all, however, is how remarkably
easy it all seems. A consummate musician blissfully comfortable in his own skin.
Of the treasures on offer (and there isn't a bad egg in the box) 'Mary' comes
very close to being top of the pile. A warmly articulated performance of a
truly beautiful melody; chock full of tenderness and pathos. A real heart stopper!
'Nookie Wood' is a another cracker. A squelchy piece of swampy voodoo, a tad
redolent of eighties Berlin Bowie. So too the quasi-psychedelic ebb and flow of
'Face To The Sky', studded with angular electric guitar and a strikingly focused
vocal. The faltering beats of 'Vampire Cafe' shuffle and scrape along with spooky
aplomb and the lovely 'Living With You' positively glows with warm emotion.
Mr Cale has been a constant in my collection since the Velvet Underground years.
With this terrific album there is every good reason that he should remain there.
Essential.
on his new album 'Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood' (just loving the title
Mr Cale!) he still has lead aplenty in his pencil. There's a vibrancy and
finesse in these twelve new songs which not only belies his many years in
the business but demonstrates beyond doubt that he remains a major force
in the contemporary musical firmament. The project has a blissfully dark
ambience shot through with flashes of wry humour and deft melodic and rhythmic
invention. His fine band : Dustin Boyer (guitars, synth and backing vocals);
Joey Maramba (Bass) and Michael Jerome Moore (Drums) cook up a hot broth of
gritty sound around Mr Cale's inimitably gruff vocals. The voice is in
remarkably good shape for a septuagenarian. The man can still hold a tune with
the best. Perhaps the most striking thing of all, however, is how remarkably
easy it all seems. A consummate musician blissfully comfortable in his own skin.
Of the treasures on offer (and there isn't a bad egg in the box) 'Mary' comes
very close to being top of the pile. A warmly articulated performance of a
truly beautiful melody; chock full of tenderness and pathos. A real heart stopper!
'Nookie Wood' is a another cracker. A squelchy piece of swampy voodoo, a tad
redolent of eighties Berlin Bowie. So too the quasi-psychedelic ebb and flow of
'Face To The Sky', studded with angular electric guitar and a strikingly focused
vocal. The faltering beats of 'Vampire Cafe' shuffle and scrape along with spooky
aplomb and the lovely 'Living With You' positively glows with warm emotion.
Mr Cale has been a constant in my collection since the Velvet Underground years.
With this terrific album there is every good reason that he should remain there.
Essential.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By A MCINTYRE
Format:Audio CD
I bought this cd after seeing the man on Jools Holland. Amazing album- modern and edgy, yet easily accessible. Impeccable songwriting. Production is wonderful, he just layers up textures and you hear something new on every listen, I love it! I understand he's a man if many genres, and will be checking out his back catalogue! Love the tracks Scotland Yard, Hemmingway, Mary. A real gem
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exellent
great artist, awsome album, great sounds beats and interesting vocals from cale as ever. exellent unussual poetic rhythm and style.
Published 2 months ago by tc
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Play it again, John
I can't remember an album (Long Play or CD) by John Cale that wasn't good, extraordinary or simply a masterpiece. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Juan Guillermo Huidobro Rein
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John Cale
A very inspired album and one of his best, I took a gamble - never having heard even one track before purchase - the missus loves it !
Published 4 months ago by P. Rushton
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Most rewarding album of 2012
Despite being a long-standing Velvet Underground fan and having owned 'Paris 1919' for over twenty years, I'd never seriously explored Cale's solo work before this year. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mark Twain
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Still making his own path...
Only listened to this album once since buying yesterday but this is an impressive, but not spectacular album from John Cale. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Jmrichardson
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