Photo by David Reich

In 1982, John Cale released his solo album Music For a New Society. On January 22, he'll release M:FANS, a rework of that album, via Double Six/Domino. It's accompanied by a fully remastered version of the original album that comes with three unreleased bonus tracks. Watch the Abby Portner-directed video for "Close Watch", which features Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman, below.

The albums will be available as a 2xCD package and individually on vinyl.

In a statement, Cale talked about the process of making the new version of the album, and how Lou Reed's 2013 death informed it:

Making any form of art is always personal to my mind. During the making of M:FANS, I found myself loathing each and every character written about in those original recording sessions of Music For... Unearthing those tapes reopened those wounds. It was time to decimate the despair from 1981 and breathe new energy, re-write the story. Then, the unthinkable happened. What had informed so much over lost and twisted relationships in 1981 had now come full circle. Losing Lou [too painful to understand] forced me to upend the entire recording process and begin again...a different perspective - a new sense of urgency to tell a story from a completely opposite point of view - what was once sorrow, was now a form of rage. A fertile ground for exorcism of things gone wrong and the realization they are unchangeable. From sadness came the strength of fire!!!”

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M:FANS:

01 Prelude

02 If You Were Still Around

03 Taking Your Life In Your Hands

04 Thoughtless Kind

05 Sanctus (Sanities Mix)

06 Broken Bird

07 Chinese Envoy

08 Changes Made

09 Library Of Force [ft. Man In The Book excerpt]

10 Close Watch

11 If You Were Still Around (Choir Reprise)

12 Back To The End

Music For a New Society:

01 Taking Your Life In Your Hands

02 Thoughtless Kind

03 Sanctus (Sanities)

04 If You Were Still Around

05 Close Watch

06 Broken Bird

07 Chinese Envoy

08 Changes Made

09 Damn Life

10 Risé, Sam And Rimsky Korsakov

11 Library Of Force (Unreleased)

12 Chinese Envoy (Outtakes)

13 Thoughtless kind (Outtakes)