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 (2019s Reward and 2022s 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.

Available as Indie Exclusive White Vinyl / Standard Black Vinyl & CD

    Tracklist:
    Jerome
    Love Unrehearsed
    Mothers of Riches
    Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?
    Pieces of My Heart
    About Time
    Heaven Is No Feeling
    Body as a River
    Ride (feat. John Cale)
    I Know What's Nice