"In a 60-year career full of unexpected twists, Cale arrives with another: 'Mercy', an album informed by R&B and smeared with dream-pop haze and orchestral rumblings of apocalyptic terror. Yes, there's a dream team of collaborators that reads like a festival main stage ... None stand a chance of upstaging Cale, and none try. 'Mercy' is Cale's album alone, haunted and reckoning with a turbulent past that, day by day, looks more peaceful than the future".