Paris 1919

"Hvor meget af Cales soloarbejde kan forekomme vanskeligt tilgængeligt og ofte decideret avantgarde, byder Paris 1919 på en stribe velkomponerede, umiddelbart iørefaldende sange af mere traditionelt, men ikke desto mindre temmelig originalt tilsnit ... Et pop-mesterværk fra en af genrens få sande enere ... Et hovedværk".

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"Classic Cale: "Hanky Panky Nohow"'s chapel repression recalls [Cale's] roots, and a sense of restless exile pervades "Half Past France", but this also chronicles a time and place in LA, with Cale busy fucking up as Reprise's "corporate freak" A&R, snorting coke under endless blue skies. Little Feat were his band, cutting loose on helter-skelter rocker "Macbeth", and the UCLA Symphony Orchestra added chopping strings and lugubrious brass to the title track's panorama of a feverish, ruined Europe. Melodic sweetness is soured by a decadent sense of something precious being lost common to key early-'70s works, ending in the devaststion of "Antarctica"".