When John Cale released 'Night Crawling' back in the summer he said that its inspiration was 1970's New York and David Bowie, which does come across in this somewhat singular loping slice of textured electro. It also sounds an awful lot like the more recent works of John Grant and, as such, can be seen to be straddling both the past and the present without any obvious sonic discomfort.
Deantoni Parks provides extra drums, and Dustin Boyer backing vocals but Cale played all the instruments and it seems to have been something of a labour of love for him. Given the shut-in nature of the past two years, it's understandable that Cale, like so many of us, would become nostalgic for a past when we could roam the streets at night, going from club to club, gig to gig.
Cale toured in October and as such 'Night Crawling' served to act as something of a calling card and promise of what was to come.
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