The veteran musicians somehow end up looking in their own pasts to make the sense of their own possible futures, if that makes a lick of sense then. I mean, some manage to tour by playing their most famous albums, yet a couple like to rerecord them. Cale belongs to the category of these musicians, but don't hold that against him. Sure, he could've picked a better album for that than Music For A New Society. M:FANS, the remake, is not bad, one just find the latter a bit unnecessary thanks to the spectre of the original that remains one of Cale's greatest LPs thanks to the latter's haunting minimalism. I sort of get what Cale wanted to do with M:FANS, i.e. he wanted to check what happens with the grief later. Still, he should've tackled an album of original material for this theme.
