The Academy in Peril: Vinyl LP NOW45%SUMMER25 Bleakly beautiful

Bleakly beautiful

and 2017’s The Centre Cannot Hold as one of Pitchfork’s Top 20 Experimental Albums of the year

It’s a perfect soup pot of the emotions that make footwork great: dark and intimidating

2 (songs only soundtrack)

The Academy in Peril: Vinyl LP NOW45%SUMMER25 Bleakly beautifulJohn Cale was never very kind to his solo debut, Vintage Violence. When it was released in early 1970, Cale had been out of The Velvet Underground for less than two years. He wanted to prove he could be the songwriter, the person penning the words and melodies behind which a band could work. I was masked on Vintage Violence, he wrote much later. Youre not really seeing the personality. Indeed, Cales personality as a polyglot seemingly interested in