"...With pedal steel, big orchestration and Bee-Gees-inspired crooning this album broadened Cale's image from avant-garde misfit to genuine pop protTgT...", "...VIOLENCE's placid compositions are all velvet, no underground....An elegant collection of stately songcraft....for later-Cale converts it's a must." - Rating: A-, "An affable orchestral-pop opus abounding with artful hooks, rich baritone singing and elegant-as-church-spires piano, Cale's 1970 debut solo LP still sounds wonderful..."