Cate Le Bon’s seventh album “Michelangelo Dying” is a luminous exorcism of love, loss, and solitude, her most vulnerable work to date. Produced and performed largely by Le Bon herself, it expands on the otherworldly textures of “Reward” and “Pompeii“, weaving guitars, saxophones, and ghostly vocals into an iridescent song cycle. At once intimate and alien, the record captures what it means to grieve, to reach for connection, and to ultimately meet yourself.
Cate Le Bon is releasing a new album, “Michelangelo Dying”, on September 26th via Mexican Summer. This week she shared its second single, “Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?,” via a music video. Fellow Welsh musician H. Hawkline directed the video.
Le Bon previously shared “Michelangelo Dying’s” lead single “Heaven Is No Feeling.” “Michelangelo Dying” is Le Bon’s seventh full-length and the follow-up to “Pompeii”, which was chosen among ther Top 100 Albums of 2022 list.
Le Bon produced “Michelangelo Dying” with collaborator Samur Khouja.
Le Bon, who has worked as a producer with St. Vincent, Wilco, and others, said in a previous press release: “There’s this idea that you could do everything yourself, but the value of having someone you completely trust, as I do Samur, be your co-pilot allows you to get completely lost knowing you’ll get pulled back in at the right moment. We have come to quietly move as one in the studio.”
Cate Le Bon is releasing a new album, “Michelangelo Dying“, on September 26th via Mexican Summer.
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