blackAcetate

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{{Infobox album

| italic_title = no

| name = blackAcetate

| type = Album

| artist = John Cale

| cover = John Cale - blackAcetate.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|2005|10|3|df=yes}} (UK)

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = The Lair (Los Angeles, California)

| genre = * Art rock

• art pop

| length = 53:13

| label = EMI

| producer = * John Cale

• Herb Graham Jr.
• Mickey Petralia

| prev_title = Process

| prev_year = 2005

| next_title = Circus Live

| next_year = 2007

| misc = {{Singles

| name = blackAcetate

| type = studio

| single1 = Turn the Lights On

| single1date = August 2005

| single2 = Perfect

| single2date = 17 October 2005

| single3 = Outta the Bag

| single3date = January 2006

}}}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/black-acetate-mw0000351411 |title=John Cale: Black Acetate |last1=Horowitz |first1=Hal |website=AllMusic |access-date=4 April 2015}}

| rev2 = The Independent

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-john-cale--none-onestar-twostar-threestar-fourstar-fivestar-509023.html |title=Album: John Cale |last1=Gill |first1=Andy |date=30 September 2005 |website=The Independent |access-date=4 April 2015}}

| rev3 = Mojo

| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite journal |date=November 2005 |title=John Cale: BlackAcetate |journal=Mojo |pages=102}}

| rev4 = NME

| rev4Score = (8/10){{cite journal |date=8 October 2005 |title=John Cale: Black Acetate |journal=NME |pages=45}}

| rev5 = Pitchfork Media

| rev5Score = (4.4/10){{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1228-black-acetate/ |title=John Cale: Black Acetate |last1=Murphy |first1=Matthew |date=22 January 2006 |website=Pitchfork Media |access-date=4 April 2015}}

| rev6 = PopMatters

| rev6Score = (5/10){{cite web |url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/calejohn-blackacetate/ |title=John Cale: Black Acetate |last1=Weigel |first1=David |author-link1=David Weigel |date=23 November 2005 |website=PopMatters |access-date=4 April 2015}}

| rev7 = Prefix

| rev7Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/john-cale/blackacetate/14760/ |title=John Cale: BlackAcetate |last1=Houghtaling |first1=Adam Brent |date=8 December 2005 |website=Prefix |access-date=4 April 2015}}

| rev8 = Q

| rev8Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite journal |date=November 2005 |title=John Cale: Black Acetate |journal=Q |pages=123}}

| rev9 = Stylus

| rev9Score = C{{cite web |url=http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/john-cale/black-acetate.htm |title=John Cale: Black Acetate |last1=Cober-Lake |first1=Justin |last2=Soto |first2=Alfred |date=5 December 2005 |website=Stylus |access-date=4 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205540/http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/john-cale/black-acetate.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite journal |date=October 2005 |title=John Cale: Black Acetate |pages=104 |journal=Uncut}}}}

blackAcetate is a 2005 solo studio album by the Welsh rock musician John Cale, his second and last album for EMI.

"Perfect" was released as a single in the UK two weeks after the album, and was subsequently included in The Sunday Times' list of the top 20 pop songs of the year.{{cite news| title=Pop: Songs of the year| date=18 December 2005| access-date=2 August 2006| url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-1917737,00.html| author=Mark Edwards and Dan Cairns| newspaper=The Sunday Times | location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}