First time vinyl repress of a 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 Cale’s 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 another’s words the results often sound forced but Cale does a magnificent job of compressing Thomas’s lyricism into neat melodic phrases themselves just components of a vast harmonic mega-structure scored for the USSR’s Orchestra of Symphonic & 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 Cale’s deep-seated compositional genius and unobtrusive but resonant production from Brian Eno.” Kiran Sande