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The Charlatans: We Are Love

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On October 31, 2025, “BMG Rights Management” label released “We Are Love”, the fourteenth Charlatans (The) album. It was recorded in 2025, at “Rockfield” in Monmouthshire, Wales, and was produced by Dev Hynes, Fred Macpherson and Stephen Street.

Personnel:

  • Tim Burgess – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Mark Collins – guitar, backing vocals, samples
  • Tony Rogers – keyboards, piano, backing vocals
  • Martin Blunt – bass guitar
  • Dev Hynes – synthesizer, guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, programming, keyboards, samples, backing vocals, engineer
  • Fred Macpherson – synthesizer, backing vocals, programming, samples, engineer
  • Pete Salisbury – drums, percussion
  • Digby Smith – synthesizer
  • Orlando Leopard – synthesizer
  • Tim Lewis – synthesizer, samples
  • Peter Gordon – tenor saxophone
  • Kevin Godley – backing vocals
  • Matt Colton – engineer
  • Craig Silvey – engineer
  • Evie Clark-Yospa – engineer, backing vocals
  • Tim Lewis – engineer
  • Robert Sellens – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Martin Blunt, Tim Burgess, Mark Collins, and Tony Rogers.

  1. Kingdom of Ours
  2. We Are Love
  3. Many a Day a Heartache
  4. For the Girls
  5. You Can’t Push the River
  6. Deeper and Deeper
  7. Appetite
  8. Salt Water
  9. Out on Our Own
  10. Glad You Grabbed Me
  11. Now Everything

John Cale: Mercy

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On January 20, 2023, “Double Six Records” label released “Mercy” the seventeenth John Cale studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Arm Studios”, EastWest Studios” and “Vox Studios” in Los Angeles, “Snap Studios” in London, and was produced by Nita Scott and John Cale.

Personnel:

  • John Cale – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, vintage keyboards, synthesizer, drums, percussion, additional strings, string arrangements, noises, Swarmatron, drone
  • Weyes Blood – vocals
  • Amelia Meath – vocals
  • Tei Shi – vocals
  • Lias Saoudi – vocals
  • Dustin Boyer – guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, noises, backing vocals
  • Nick Sanborn – acoustic guitar
  • Dev Hynes – acoustic guitar
  • Adam J. Harmer – guitar, backing vocals
  • Actress – synthesizers, effects
  • Laurel Halo – additional vocals, synthesizer, effects
  • Brian Weitz – synthesizer
  • Joey Maramba – bass guitar, bowed bass
  • Ian Walker – double bass
  • Deantoni Parks – acoustic and electronic drums, timpani, additional synthesizer
  • Jack Everett – acoustic drums, backing vocals
  • Tony Allen – acoustic drums
  • Nita Scott – additional drums, additional percussion, additional drum programming, backing vocals
  • Marissa Kuney – violin
  • Jenny Takamatsu – violin
  • Eric Gorfain – violin
  • Caroline Buckman – viola
  • Leah Katz – viola
  • Rodney Wirtz – viola
  • Matt Fish – cello
  • Nathan Saoudi – Juno, backing vocals
  • Destani Wolf – backing vocals
  • Tokimonsta – effects
  • Dustin Boyer – engineer, mixing, additional production
  • Nita Scott – mixing
  • Mikaelin Bluespruce – mixing
  • Seven Davis Jr – mixing
  • Tokimonsta – mixing
  • Justin Raisen – mixing
  • Mike Bozzi – mastering
  • Actress – additional production
  • Abby Portner – artwork
  • Rob Carmichael – design

Track listing:

All tracks by John Cale.

  1. Mercy
  2. Marilyn Monroe’s Legs (Beauty Elsewhere)
  3. Noise of You
  4. Story of Blood
  5. Time Stands Still
  6. Moonstruck
  7. Everlasting Days
  8. Night Crawling
  9. Not the End of the World
  10. The Legal Status of Ice
  11. I Know You’re Happy
  12. Out Your Window