"Words For The Dying has at its heart The Falklands Suite, Cales 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 anothers words, the results often sound forced, but Cale does a magnificent job of compressing Thomass lyricism into neat melodic phrases, themselves just components of a vast harmonic mega-structure scored for the USSRs 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 Cales deep-seated compositional genius, and unobtrusive but resonant production from Brian Eno." Kiran Sande