John Cale - Words For The DyingFirst time vinyl repress of this John Cale album, originally released on the Opal label in 1989, produced by Brian Eno. Words For The Dying has at its heart The Falklands Suite, Cales baroque if heartfelt response to the Anglo Argentinian War, which finds him setting the poems of his beloved Dylan Thomas to music. When building songs around anothers words, the results often sound forced, but Cale does a magnificent job of compressing Thomass lyricism

live re-airings and expansions of the space captured in their records as they continued to grow and flow - all the way through

buried songs beneath warped aural gauze

2013's Innocence Is Kinky and 2015‰۪s Apocalypse

but along came 'Paul's Boutique'

Hailing from Wigan on the overlooked fringes of Greater Manchester

This 2 LP follow up to lasts year’s RSD 2 LP Remixes and B sides features a number of rare and currently unavailable remixes of It’s Too Late

Speak’s new album

Stand-out number ‘Among The Dunes’ is an amorphous platform-heeled anthem

“I wanted to reinforce the clangy soundscapes of the songs

cinematic double dose from two sonic veterans with previous in Wire

The new album has been recorded and mixed much faster than the previous one

physicallyåÊdemanding and often reckless performances