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100
It is music whose scope, erudition and vitriol makes everything else in this year of exceptional musical timidity seem puny.
8y
91
An audacious marriage of restless experimentalism and eloquent melodic craft.
10y
90
This is the Welsh iconoclast at his most elegant, energetic, and innovative.
10y
80
A luxuriant union of black-ice electronics and chamber-pop instrumentation.
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3y
80
His most direct, energised and modernist work in years.
10y
80
As complex, compelling, and at times unsettling a record as Cale has unleashed since 1982's Music For A New Society.
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2y
80
Deep voiced, disquieting and bristling with intelligence, Hobo Sapiens is a reminder of how intoxicating an artist Cale can be.
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2y
70
Like a Fellini movie, filled with rich textures and intriguing characters.
8y
65
About half of it works reasonably well, though the end result is somehow closer to Low-era Bowie or Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain than anything truly contemporary or avant-garde.
10y
To lean on lazy Bowie career comparisons this would probably be Cale's 'Heathen' with a mix of artful meandering experimental tunes and some more peppy upbeat numbers, with a backdrop of subtle electronic touches colouring around the edges.
It was never going to sell millions of copies but I'm certain that wasn't the intention here; judged on artistic measures this is a successful latter career comeback that gives the long standing fan plenty to chew on.
Does it go on a bit? Maybe a little.
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Track List
| -1 | Set Me Free 4:34 | |
| 1 | Zen 6:03 | |
| 2 | Reading My Mind 4:11 | |
| 3 | Things 3:37 | |
| 4 | Look Horizon 5:41 | |
| 5 | Magritte 4:58 | |
| 6 | Archimedes 4:41 | |
| 7 | Caravan 6:44 | |
| 8 | Bicycle 5:06 | |
| 9 | Twilight Zone 3:49 | |
| 10 | Letter From Abroad 5:10 | |
| 11 | Things X 4:50 | |
| 12 | Over Her Head 5:22 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 4 minutes
