Cate Le Bon

Be it on her more minimalist, acoustic-leaning 2009 debut album Me Oh My or critically acclaimed, liquid-riffed 2013 LP Mug Museum as well as 2016s Crab Day, Cate Le Bon’s solo work — and indeed also her production work, such as that carried out on recent Deerhunter album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD, January 2019) — has always resisted pigeonholing, walking the tightrope between krautrock aloofness and heartbreaking tenderness; deadpan served with a twinkle in the ...
Be it on her more minimalist, acoustic-leaning 2009 debut album Me Oh My or critically acclaimed, liquid-riffed 2013 LP Mug Museum as well as 2016s Crab Day, Cate Le Bon’s solo work — and indeed also her production work, such as that carried out on recent Deerhunter album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD, January 2019) — has always resisted pigeonholing, walking the tightrope between krautrock aloofness and heartbreaking tenderness; deadpan served with a twinkle in the eye, a flick of the fringe and a lick of the Telecaster.
It 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 Reward. 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.
Cate Le Bon news
Cate Le Bon ‘Pompeii’ out 4th February 2022
NOMINATION Mercury Music Prize
Upcoming Cate Le Bon gigs
12 June 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Eltham Hotel | Gold Coast | Australia |
16 June 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Corner Hotel | Melbourne | Australia |
17 June 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Theatre Royal | Bendigo | Australia |
23 June 2022 | Cate Le Bon | The Greek Theatre | Los Angeles (LA) | US |
29 June 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Open’er Festival 2022 | Gdynia | Poland |
15 July 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Pitchfork Music Festival 2022 | Chicago | US |
22 July 2022 | Cate Le Bon | White Eagle Hall | Jersey City | US |
23 July 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Dell Music Center | Philadelphia | US |
16 August 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Newcastle University Students' Union | Newcastle Upon Tyne | UK |
18 August 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Green Man Festival 2022 | Brecon Beacons | UK |
18 August 2022 | Cate Le Bon | Albert Hall | Manchester | UK |