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John Cale Announces New Album, Shares Video For New Song "How We See The Light"

John Cale Announces New Album, Shares Video For New Song "How We See the Light" POPtical Illusion Due Out June 14 via Double Six/Domino

Mar 26, 2024 By Mark Redfern Photography by Madeline McManusBookmark and Share

John Cale has announced a new album, POPtical Illusion, and shared its first single, "How We See the Light," via a music video. POPtical Illusion is due out June 14 via Double Six/Domino. Pepi Ginsberg directed the "How We See the Light" video. Watch it below, followed by the album's tracklist and cover artwork.

POPtical Illusion is the quick follow-up to MERCY, which was his first new album in a decade and was released in January 2023 via Double Six/Domino. That album featured a slew of notable collaborators, including Weyes Blood, Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, Fat White Family, and Actress. MERCY was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2023. A press release points out that POPtical Illusion "is not at all MERCY II, or some collection of castoffs."

Cale produced the new album with longtime artistic partner Nita Scott in his Los Angeles studio. Cale was a founding member of the legendary '60s band The Velvet Underground, but has often sought to push his music into the future, rather than reveling in past glories.

Read our 2023 interview with John Cale on MERCY.

Read our review of MERCY.

POPtical Illusion Tracklist:

1. God Made Me Do It (don't ask me again)2. Davies and Wales3. Calling You Out4. Edge of Reason5. I'm Angry6. How We See The Light7. Company Commander8. Setting Fires9. Shark-Shark10. Funkball the Brewster11. All To the Good12. Laughing In My Sleep13. There Will Be No River

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John Cale Announces 'POPtical Illusion,' His Second Album In Two Years

John Cale has announced POPtical Illusion, his second album in as many years and the follow-up to 2023's guest-heavy MERCY. The album is arriving June 14 on Double Six / Domino, and today, we get the video for lead single "How We See the Light."

The album finds the art-rock legend "angry, still incensed by the willful destruction that unchecked capitalists and unrepentant con men have hoisted upon the wonders of this world and the goodness of its people" and is described as a maze of synthesizers, samples, organs and pianos. The album was produced by Cale and longtime artistic partner Nita Scott.

"Can I close another chapter in the way we run our lives?" Cale sings on "How We See the Light."  The song's video, directed by Pepi Ginsberg, sees a gaggle of big-headed office workers going about their lives.

Check it out below, alongside the POPtical Illusion tracklist. 

POPtical Illusion:

1. God Made Me Do It (don't ask me again)2. Davies and Wales3. Calling You Out4. Edge of Reason5. I'm Angry6. How We See the Light7. Company Commander8. Setting Fires9. Shark-Shark10. Funkball the Brewster11. All to the Good12. Laughing in My Sleep13. There Will Be No River 





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