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Cate Le Bon

Michelangelo Dying

    Its creation led by pure emotion, Cate Le Bon’s seventh record 'Michelangelo Dying' usurped the album she thought she was making. The product of all-consuming heartache, her feelings overrode her reluctance to write an album about love, and in the process became a kind of exorcism. What emerges is a wonderfully iridescent attempt to photograph a wound before it closes up — but which in doing so, picks at it too.

    Musically, there is a continuation and expansion of a sound — a machine with a heart — that has taken shape over her last two records (2019’s 'Reward' and 2022’s 'Pompeii') as Le Bon has increasingly taken control of the playing and producing herself. As guitars and saxophones are pushed through pedals and percussion and voices are fed through filters, an iridescent, green and silky sound emerges, with flashes of the artistic singularities of David Bowie, Nico, John McGeoch and Laurie Anderson surfacing and disappearing below the waterline throughout.

    What we’re left with is an ever-changing, continuous entity, a kind of song cycle. Each iteration reflects and progresses the last, “each one a shard of the same broken mirror” — shifting, glinting, concealing and revealing, depending on how it is turned in the light. There are ultimately, Cate asserts, “No revelations. No conclusions. There is no reason. There is repetition and chaos. I eventually allowed myself a vacant mind to experience it without resistance and without searching fora revelation or order to any of it.”

    An exercise in the viscerality of life, of love, of humanity for both listener and artist, 'Michelangelo Dying' knows what it is to hold, to be held, and to be exquisitely, profoundly alone. “The characters are interchangeable” concludes Cate, “but at the end of it all, it’s me meeting myself.”

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Jerome
    2. Love Unrehearsed
    3. Mothers Of Riches
    4. Is It Worth It (HappyBirthday)?
    5. Pieces Of My Heart
    6. About Time
    7. Heaven Is No Feeling
    8. Body As A River
    9. Ride (featuring John Cale)
    10. I Know What's Nice

    Cate Le Bon

    Rock Pool EP - 2023 Reissue

      Re-issue of Cate Le Bon’s 2016 4 track EP recorded during the sessions for her Crab day album originally released on Drag City. Long out of print and currently copies selling on discogs for $60.00-$75.00 the EP is now available as limited editions of 500 copies each on black and yellow vinyl. Cate Le Bon self-described the recordings as “Rock Pool is the killed darlings from the Crab Day sessions brought back to life on a classic 2-2 formation. Written under the same banner of the impossibly absurd and emerging to unimaginable bedlam” .

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Aside From Growing Old
      2. Rock Pool
      3. Perfume Days
      4.I Just Wanna Be Good

      Cate Le Bon

      Crab Day - 2023 Reissue

        Re-issue of Cate Le Bon’s April 2016 album originally released on Drag City which she described as "A coalition of inescapable feelings and fabricated nonsense," .

        A few years prior to its release, Cate’s mother unearthed her birth certificate, and admitted to her daughter that they'd had her birthday a day off for nearly three decades. That sense of misaligned reality is the guiding force on Crab Day, where Cate establishes a strange, almost Dadaist lyrical scheme to make sense—or make more nonsense—of some unnamed life rupture that's left her grasping.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Crab Day
        2. Love Is Not Love
        3. Wonderful
        4. Find Me
        5. I’m A Dirty Attic
        6. I Was Born On The Wrong Day
        7. We Might Revolve
        8. Yellow Blinds, Cream Shadows
        9. How Do You Know.?
        10. What’s Not Mine

        Cate Le Bon

        Cyrk - 2022 Reissue

          Cate Le Bon’s second album, Cyrk, was released to widespread acclaim in 2012 and saw the Welsh singer/songwriter play live across the world, including being invited by St Vincent to tour the United States. There are small musical touches throughout CYRK which make it distinctive from the work of any other singer-songwriter, colouring the record with splashes of ingenious eccentricity and psych-pop flourishes.

          “A songwriter this unique and talented shouldn’t be standing in anyone’s shadow.” Pitchfork.

          “Cyrk is a curious musical brew that blends Velvet Underground-style shaggy jangles with a kind of bucolic psych-folk sound” BBC Music.

          “One of the most characterful voices of recent times” MOJO.

          "A common thread can be found in CYRK, Cate's second album: the application of a sincere pop-song sensibility, and a yen for the surreal that sidesteps the zany." NME.


          TRACK LISTING

          Falcon Eyed
          Puts Me To Work
          Cyrk
          Julia
          Greta
          Fold The Cloth
          The Man I Wanted
          Through The Mill
          Ploughing Out, Pt. 1
          Ploughing Out, Pt. 2

          Cate Le Bon

          Cyrk & Cyrk II - 10th Anniversary Exclusive Dinked Edition

            There are small musical touches throughout CYRK which make it distinctive from the work of any other singer-songwriter, colouring the record with splashes of ingenious eccentricity and psych-pop flourishes. Cyrk II is gentler and dreamier, a pleasant blend that gives way to soothing harmonies with less of the eccentricities that Le Bon has become known for. 2022 marks 10 years of the release of both Cyrk and Cyrk II.

            Cryk
            Cate Le Bon’s second album, Cyrk, was released to widespread acclaim in 2012 and saw the Welsh singer/songwriter play live across the world, including being invited by St Vincent to tour the United States. There are small musical touches throughout CYRK which make it distinctive from the work of any other singer-songwriter, colouring the record with splashes of ingenious eccentricity and psych-pop flourishes.

            Cryk II
            Cryk II is a collection of the 5 tracks that didn’t make it onto the Cyrk , the rationale being that they’re distinctively different from those on the parent LP. Cyrk II is gentler and dreamier, a pleasant blend that gives way to soothing harmonies with less of the eccentricities that Le Bon has become known for.

            “A songwriter this unique and talented shouldn’t be standing in anyone’s shadow.” Pitchfork

            “Cyrk is a curious musical brew that blends Velvet Underground-style shaggy jangles with a kind of bucolic psych-folk sound” BBC Music

            “One of the most characterful voices of recent times” MOJO

            "A common thread can be found in CYRK, Cate's second album: the application of a sincere pop-song sensibility, and a yen for the surreal that sidesteps the zany." NME


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