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First time vinyl repress of this John Cale album, originally released on the Opal label in 1989, produced by Brian Eno. Words For The Dying has at its heart The Falklands Suite, Cales baroque if heartfelt response to the Anglo-Argentinian War, which finds him setting the poems of his beloved Dylan Thomas to music. When building songs around anothers words, the results often sound forced, but Cale does a magnificent job of compressing Thomass lyricism into neat melodic phrases, themselves just components of a vast harmonic mega-structure scored for the USSRs Orchestra of Symphonic and Popular Music of Gostelradio. A project that could easily have collapsed under the weight of its own ambition is instead a late masterpiece, thanks to Cales deep-seated compositional genius, and unobtrusive but resonant production from Brian Eno. – Kiran Sande.
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