John Cale - M FANS (2016)
Tracklist front / back album covers
"Prelude" – 2:17
"If You Were Still Around" (Cale, Sam Shepard) – 5:18
"Taking Your Life in Your Hands" – 5:43
"Thoughtless Kind" – 5:27
"Sanctus (Sanities Mix)" – 5:19
"Broken Bird" – 5:10
"Chinese Envoy" – 3:51
"Changes Made" – 3:54
"Library of Force" – 3:09
"Close Watch" – 5:15
"If You Were Still Around (Choir Reprise)" (Cale, Shepard) – 4:44
"Back to the End" – 3:34
John Cale Band Members / Musicians
John Cale – vocals, voice, noises, keyboards, organ, piano, electric piano, guitar, electric guitar, programmed guitar, bass, programming, synthesizer, drums, viola, samples, production, recording, mixing
Dustin Boyer – guitar, guitar synthesizer, bass, loops, programming, drum machine, drum programming, drums, mixing, recording
Deantoni Parks – keyboards, noises, loops
Joey Maramba – synth bass
Ralph Esposito – synth bass
Alex Thomas – drums, samples
Matt Fish – cello
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – viola
Thomas Lea – viola
Jessy Greene – violin
Chris Bautista – trumpet
Amber Coffman – vocals on "Close Watch"
New Direction Church – choir
Benjamin Goodman – choir director
William Arthur George Cale – voice
Margaret Cale – voice
Adam Moseley – mixing, recording
Nita Scott – mixing, executive producer
M:FANS is the 16th solo studio album by Welsh musician and composer John Cale. It was released in January 2016 on the Double Six Records imprint of Domino Recording Company. Produced by Cale, it features new versions of songs from his 1982 album Music for a New Society. "Close Watch" was the album's lead single. It was released in November 2015 and features Amber Coffman from Dirty Projectors.