For nearly 60 years, or at least since he was a young Welshman who moved to New York and formed The Velvet Underground, John Cale has been reinventing his music with dazzling and inspiring regularity.

Once again, here is Cale, reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. His engrossing 12-track MERCY moves through true dark-night-of-the-soul electronics toward vulnerable love songs and hopeful considerations for the future. On MERCY, Cale enlists some of musics most curious young minds: Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, Actress.

Theyre only some of the astounding cast here, brilliant musicians who climb inside Cales consummate vision of the world and help him redecorate there.

MERCY is the continuation of a long careers work with wonder. Cale has always sear