Horsegirl, St. Vincent, Wilco and Devendra Banhart have one thing in common: Cate Le Bon produced their albums. Since her post-point beginnings in 2009, the Welsh woman, who grew up between sheep and goats, has developed into a popular music worker who is also asked as a live bass, so she accompanied Ua John Grant on tour. You can tell her seventh album Michelangelo Dying all the expertise and, above all, her claim to yourself, she is not satisfied with a designed design.
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It seems as if Le Bon has heard into the foundations of the Cocteau Twins to give them a contemporary update. But where the Scottish trio is about melody, Le Bon textures, areas and repetitive structures dominate. Guitars are pressed through effect pedals, voices hunted by filters until, as in “Love Unrehearsed”, a foggy horny saxophone is guided out of the song.
The single “Is it Worth it? (Happy Birthday)” could go through Weyes Blood’s “It’s not just me, it’s everybody” as a Gothic sister, in the video clip a man is initially annoyed by his dog before buying a blonde wig. All of this is from bizarre beauty, it is spun and sublime, but also full of puzzles that need to be found. Maybe the Dream Pop from which the nightmares are.
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 10/2025.