{"title":"Cate Le Bon","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our collection of Cate Le Bon vinyl records, CDs, box sets, and more at Darkside Records. Shop new and used releases with fresh inventory arriving daily.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-pompeii-indie-exclusive-yellow","title":"Cate Le Bon- Pompeii (Indie Exclusive Yellow) (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSun Yellow Colored Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e Shop online at 24\/7.\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42498524184797,"sku":"184923131536","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/products\/g4qdhw0c8wlowdjeuugk.jpg?v=1731231153"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-pompeii","title":"Cate Le Bon- Pompeii","description":"  \nFormat: Used CD. All discs are visually inspected and guaranteed to be in VG+ condition or better and free of scratches. Original artwork included unless otherwise noted. Images are stock photos. Please inquire for photos of actual product.\n","brand":"Used Purchases","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42524755001565,"sku":"184923131529","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/mbid-157fef18-244f-4379-8f41-21cc10d9a393-34039967699_thumb500.jpg?v=1769825633"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-pompeii-1","title":"Cate Le Bon- Pompeii (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes digital download. 2022 release. Pompeii, Cate Le Bon's sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019's Mercury-nominated Reward, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any 'dissection of immediacy,' says Le Bon. Sonically minimal in parts, it's lyrics jog between self-reflection and direct address. Written primarily on bass and composed entirely alone in an 'uninterrupted vacuum,' Le Bon plays every instrument (except drums and saxophones) and recorded the album largely by herself with long-term collaborator and co-producer Samur Khouja in Cardiff, Wales To leverage visionary control, Le Bon invented twisted types of discipline into her absurdist decision making. Primary goals in this project were to mimic the 'religious' sensibility in one of Tim Presley's paintings, which hung on the studio wall in Cardiff, Wales as a meditative image and was reproduced as a portrait of Le Bon for Pompeii's cover. Fist across the heart, stalwart and saintly: how to make 'music that sounds like a painting?' Cate asked herself. Enter piles of Pompeii's signature synths made on favorites such as the Yamaha DX7, amongst others; basslines inspired by 1980s Japanese city pop, designed to bring joyfulness and abandonment; vocal arrangements that add memorable depth to the melodic fabric of each song; long-term collaborator Stella Mozgawa's 'jazz-thinking' percussion patched in from quarantined Australia; and Khouja's encouraging presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDirt on the Bed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Moderation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e French Boys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pompeii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Harbour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Running Away\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cry Me Old Trouble\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Remember Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Wheel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45005473087709,"sku":"184923131512","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4020779-2791719.jpg?v=1727246663"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-me-oh-my","title":"Cate Le Bon- Me Oh My (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVinyl LP pressing. Cate Le Bon's captivating 2009 debut album available on vinyl for the first time ever. Me Oh My is the debut full-length album by the Welsh musician and songwriter. The album was originally going to be named Pet Deaths, referring to Le Bon's experiences with the subject. One song written in Welsh was originally going to be on the album, but was discarded because it interrupted the flow, though Welsh can still be heard on some tracks. \"Part folk minstrel and part psychedelic goddess\" - 4 stars - The Mirror; \"A singular talent\" 4 stars - Mojo; \"Quirky and confident\" - Debut of the month - Uncut; \"Cate Le Bon is very much her own thing.\" 8\/10 - NME; \"Songs at once as old as the hills and utterly original.\" - Sunday Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMe Oh My\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sad Sad Feet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Shoeing The Bones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hollow Trees House Hounds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e It's Not The End\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Terror Of The Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Eyes So Bright\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Digging Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Burn Until The End\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Out To Sea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Control Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45005877706973,"sku":"650384025917","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/2933573.jpg?v=1727234537"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-crab-day-colored-vinyl","title":"Cate Le Bon- Crab Day - Colored Vinyl","description":"\u003cp\u003eRe-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 it's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrab Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Love Is Not Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Wonderful\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Find Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I'm a Dirty Attic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Was Born on the Wrong Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e We Might Revolve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Yellow Blinds Cream Shadows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e How Do You Know?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What's Not Mine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006134051037,"sku":"8720828354476","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4210080-2974354.jpg?v=1731430684"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-cyrk","title":"Cate Le Bon- Cyrk (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCate Le Bon's breakthrough second album.\"More than just chart her progression as a singer and songwriter, CYRK also sees Le Bon and her four-piece band developing into a crack psych-rock outfit that consistently leads the songs into unexpected places.\" - Pitchfork. \"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFalcon Eyed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Puts Me to Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cyrk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Julia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Greta\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Fold the Cloth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Man I Wanted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Through the Mill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ploughing Out Part 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ploughing Out Part 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Control Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006653882589,"sku":"650384028215","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/1957976.jpg?v=1727211555"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-michelangelo-dying","title":"Cate Le Bon- Michelangelo Dying (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 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-\nconsuming 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. What were 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 for a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJerome\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Love Unrehearsed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mothers of Riches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pieces of My Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e About Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Heaven Is No Feeling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Body as a River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ride feat. John Cale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Know What's Nice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e UPC \u0026gt; 762184287621 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Format \u0026gt; New Vinyl \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Label \u0026gt; Mexican Summer \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Release Date \u0026gt; Release Date: 9.26.25 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShop online at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46525122740445,"sku":"762184287621","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4430902-3398628.jpg?v=1750969086"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-michelangelo-dying-iex-bone-white","title":"Cate Le Bon- Michelangelo Dying (Indie Exclusive Bone White Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 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. What were 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 for a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJerome\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove Unrehearsed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMothers of Riches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIs It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePieces of My Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeaven Is No Feeling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBody as a River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRide feat. John Cale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Know What's Nice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 184923135305\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Mexican Summer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date \u0026gt; Release Date: 9.26.25\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShop online at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46525133488349,"sku":"184923135305","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4430901-3413835.jpg?v=1750969150"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-michelangelo-dying-1","title":"Cate Le Bon- Michelangelo Dying (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 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-\r\nconsuming 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 for a 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJerome\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Love Unrehearsed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mothers of Riches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pieces of My Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e About Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Heaven Is No Feeling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Body as a River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ride feat. John Cale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Know What's Nice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e UPC \u0026gt; 762184287522 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Format \u0026gt; New CD \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Label \u0026gt; Mexican Summer \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Release Date \u0026gt; Release Date: 9.26.25 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46525312499933,"sku":"762184287522","price":16.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4430903-3398627.jpg?v=1750973399"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-reward-2","title":"Cate Le Bon- Reward (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon’s fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. “There’s a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night,” she says, recounting the year living solitarily in the Lake District which gave way to \u003ci\u003eReward\u003c\/i\u003e. By day, ever the polymath, Le Bon painstakingly learnt to make solid wood tables, stools and chairs from scratch; by night she looked to a second-hand Meers — the first piano she had ever owned — for company, “windows closed to absolutely everyone”, and accidentally poured her heart out. The result is an album every bit as stylistically varied, surrealistically-inclined and tactile as those in the enduring outsider’s back catalogue, but one that is also intensely introspective and profound; her most personal to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMiami\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaylight Matters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHome To You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMother's Mother's Magazines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHere It Comes Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSad Nudes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMagnificent Gestures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Don't Love Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeet The Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46984347156701,"sku":"184923125023","price":16.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3912886.jpg?v=1762927179"},{"product_id":"cate-le-bon-pompeii-2","title":"Cate Le Bon- Pompeii (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePompeii\u003c\/em\u003e, Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated \u003cem\u003eReward\u003c\/em\u003e, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Not to downplay her nod to disorientation induced by double catastrophe — global pandemic plus climate emergency’s colliding eco-traumas resonate all too eerily. “What would be your last gesture?” she asks. But just as Vesuvius remains active, Pompeii reaches past the current crises to tap into what Le Bon calls “an economy of time warp” where life roils, bubbles, wrinkles, melts, hardens, and reconfigures unpredictably, like lava—or sound, rather. Like she says in the opener, “Dirt on the Bed,” \u003cem\u003eSound doesn’t go away \/ In habitual silence \/ It reinvents the surface \/ Of everything you touch.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePompeii\u003c\/em\u003e is sonically minimal in parts, and its lyrics jog between self-reflection and direct address. Vulnerability, although “obscured,” challenges Le Bon’s tendencies towards irony. Written primarily on bass and composed entirely alone in an “uninterrupted vacuum,” Le Bon plays every instrument (except drums and saxophones) and recorded the album largely by herself with long-term collaborator and co-producer Samur Khouja in Cardiff, Wales. Enforced time and space pushed boundaries, leading to an even more extreme version of Le Bon's studio process – as exits were sealed, she granted herself “permission to annihilate identity.” “Assumptions were destroyed, and nothing was rejected” as her punk assessments of existence emerged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnter Le Bon’s signature aesthetic paradox: songs built for Now miraculously germinate from her interests in antiquity, philosophy, architecture, and divinity’s modalities. Unhinged opulence rests in sonic deconstruction that finds coherence in pop structures, and her narrativity favors slippage away from meaning. In “Remembering Me,” she sings:\u003cem\u003e In the classical rewrite \/ I wore the heat like \/ A hundred birthday cakes \/ Under one sun.\u003c\/em\u003e Reconstituted meltdowns, eloquently expressed. This mirrors what she says about the creative process: “as a changeable element, it’s sometimes the only point of control… a circuit breaker.” She’s for sure enlightened, or at least more highly evolved than the rest of us. Hear the last stanza on the album closer, “Wheel”: \u003cem\u003eI do not think that you love yourself \/ I’d take you back to school \/ And teach you right \/ How to want a life \/ But, it takes more time than you’d tender.\u003c\/em\u003e Reprimanding herself or a loved one, no matter: it’s an end note about learning how to love, which takes a lifetime and is more urgent than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo leverage visionary control, Le Bon invented twisted types of discipline into her absurdist decision making. Primary goals in this project were to mimic the “religious” sensibility in one of Tim Presley’s paintings, which hung on the studio wall as a meditative image and was reproduced as a portrait of Le Bon for Pompeii’s cover. Fist across the heart, stalwart and saintly: how to make “music that sounds like a painting?” Cate asked herself. Enter piles of Pompeii’s signature synths made on favourites such as the Yamaha DX7, amongst others; basslines inspired by 1980s Japanese city pop, designed to bring joyfulness and abandonment; vocal arrangements that add memorable depth to the melodic fabric of each song; long-term collaborator Stella Mozgawa’s “jazz-thinking” percussion patched in from quarantined Australia; and Khouja’s encouraging presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe songs of \u003cem\u003ePompeii\u003c\/em\u003e feel suspended in time, both of the moment and instant but reactionary and Dada-esque in their insistence to be playful, satirical, and surreal. From the spirited, strutting bass fretwork of “Moderation”, to the sax-swagger of “Running Away”; a tale exquisite in nature but ultimately doomed \u003cem\u003e(The fountain that empties the world \/ Too beautiful to hold)\u003c\/em\u003e, escapism lives as a foil to the outside world. Pompeii’s audacious tribute to memory, compassion, and mortal salience is here to stay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe past few years have seen Le Bon emerge as a much lauded and sought-after collaborator, producing albums for contemporaries such as Deerhunter \u003cem\u003e(Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?)\u003c\/em\u003e, John Grant \u003cem\u003e(Boy From Michigan)\u003c\/em\u003e, and forthcoming albums from both Devendra Banhart and H. Hawkline. She’s not so much a gun for hire as a multi-faceted artist and producer who can both steer the ship and tap into a collective mindset; in 2019, she joined John Cale for a three-night live stretch in Paris, and 2021 will see a bass appearance on the track \"If I Don't Hear from You Tonight\" from Courtney Barnett's \u003cem\u003eThings Take Time, Take Time\u003c\/em\u003e. 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A few years prior to it's 2016 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrab Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove Is Not Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWonderful\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFind Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI'm a Dirty Attic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Was Born on the Wrong Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe Might Revolve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYellow Blinds, Cream Shadows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Do You Know?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat's Not Mine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 602547781437\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Imports\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47541754560733,"sku":"602547781437","price":24.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4060166-2802652.jpg?v=1772602174"}],"url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/zh-cn\/collections\/cate-le-bon.oembed","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}