nice, thanks for sharing
― flappy bird, Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
saw her play a show on sunday entirely on piano with her sax/clarinet guy steve accompanying. was fucking great. she covered mccartney's waterfalls
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 11 January 2019 08:51 (five years ago) link
I'm looking forward to seeing her for the first time tomorrow night - glad to hear she's on form.
― Tim, Friday, 11 January 2019 11:08 (five years ago) link
Waterfalls: what a brilliant idea for a cover
― Alba, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
the group listening steve/sweet baboo did last year is pretty enjoyable.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 11 January 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKHPPP_3QPU
assume they were part of the gig somehow
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 11 January 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
Support for the tour. Cate also said it was meant to be a solo tour, but then she got scared, hence Sweet Baboo accompanying her...
― Wandering Boy Poet, Monday, 14 January 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
Just got back from seeing her, she played Waterfalls again. What an amazing voice she's got.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 21 February 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7VMVZ1GZZs
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/cate-le-bon-announces-new-lp-tour-listen-to-daylight-matters/
Cate Le Bon will release new album Reward on May 24 via Mexican Summer. “People hear the word ‘reward’ and they think that it’s a positive word” says Le Bon, “and to me it’s quite a sinister word in that it depends on the relationship between the giver and the receiver. I feel like it’s really indicative of the times we’re living in where words are used as slogans, and everything is slowly losing its meaning.” She worked with frequent collaborators Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint), H.Hawkline and co-producer Samur Khouja, and Reward was originally conceived as a spare piano record but grew beyond that. You can still hear those beginnings in lovely first single “Daylight Matters” — listen below.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
new song is great
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
New album is fantastic.
Lots of clarinet and sax.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link
Anyone else loving the new one? Out today...
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 24 May 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
My preorder shipped today and I'm holding off listening until it arrives (which makes no sense as I listened to the three songs that had been released several times through yesterday). it's been too long with the Drinks diversion. Excited to be seeing her live twice this summer.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 24 May 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
pleasant surprise to see this getting a bnm, i didn't know people were following this record that didn't post in the cate le bon thread on ilxor dot com
another pleasant surprise: this is another contender for my album of the year
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
she's been on a steady trajectory to greatness for a while
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
loved loved loved all the pre-release tracks, had a somewhat-attentive listen at work and appreciated it, but i'm gonna try it again on my commute home.
― Accidentally Gets High By Touching LSD Left in Vintage Buchla (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
"you don't love me" is pretty perfect
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Cate-Le-Bon-Reward/release/13650339
Pretty impressive cast of characters in the credits.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
Always love her b-sides, btw. Cyrk II is great. Looking forward to Reward b-sides. I'm hoping she dropped the more angular guitar/avant POP on the cutting room floor so I have something else to look forward to.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
I mean, yeah, I get it - another Gruff Rhys endorsed artist. Thought she was great on the first Neon Neon album, and the fact that the phenomenal Stella Mozgawa - one of my favourite drummers in indie right now - is on the new one is promising, but I've heard every single Cate le Bon album up until but not including this one, and none of them have made much of an impression on me sadly.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Seems like she's much more popular and critically acclaimed than Gruff's been post-SFA. Not sure it's fair to hold that against her.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
Nor am I aware of any other artists who've had successful careers thanks to lovely Gruff.
new album is great, been a fan
zero idea she had anything to do w/SFA dude and I don't think that makes any difference in 2019
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
I didn't say another successful Gruff Rhys endorsed artist, and you're right - in 2019 it doesn't make any difference. It might have done in 2008, though.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Reward is neck and neck with the new Matmos for my favorite record of the year. Stunning album - a couple friends were singing her praises when Crab Day came out but I couldn't get into it, this on the other hand - my god...
― flappy bird, Friday, 5 July 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
she is something special
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 July 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
There isn't a weak song on here! Every song is great! fuck!
― flappy bird, Friday, 5 July 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
Playing a free show in LA tomorrow at the Getty
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 6 July 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
Posting here because she seems very Cate-adjacent to me, really loving the tracks released thus far from Dana Gavanski's album Yesterday is Gone coming March, 27th:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_YXk6CO1E
(just posting the audio, the official video doesn't work for me (offbeat violent))
This song also has some Weyes Blood in the vocal.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
She has a new EP out with Group Listening, some different versions of songs from Reward. it's good
― flappy bird, Friday, 13 March 2020 05:57 (four years ago) link
mainly into the redo of "Magnificent Gestures", which was already one of my favorite tracks off of one of the best albums of last year. And an especially wicked track when she performed it live, hammering the riff for an extra couple minutes at the end
― Chief Kyiv, Friday, 13 March 2020 08:13 (four years ago) link
CLB's EPs are fascinating prisms of the albums proceeding. That she leaves material as strong as "The Eiggy Sea" and "Aside from Growing Old" off the main records in favor of more awkward and discordant stuff is fascinating. She's also had the Myths 004 EP with Bradford Cox in the last year, which does the tangled mucking of Drinks with better results. "What Is She Wearing" is a fine piece of Mark E Smith caustic laughs.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Friday, 13 March 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
cate le bon has hit me right upside the head, out of nowhere.
her music is REALLY good! this has been a stroke of good fortune in 2020, and i am thankful
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 September 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link
i just so happened to listen to "daylight matters" directly after listening to john cale's vintage violence, and there's a connection between the two.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 September 2020 05:59 (three years ago) link
Yes, for all the Nico comparisons in her early work, she's always reminded me far more of Cale, particularly her melodic ideas.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
she rules, saw the Reward tour, great show
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 4 September 2020 07:44 (three years ago) link
yes she is a great songwriter - same thing happened to me with the sudden headlong rush of realisation that she is incredible except it was the previous album thats sent me into into the spiral of obsession and backward through her catalog - the latest one only came across to me as 'good' - I guess I like her when she is more eccentric and lets her wilder and more spiky tendencies hang out alongside her beautiful melodies - reward seemed too restrained for me but I still love her all the same
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Friday, 4 September 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
She's great live. Rocks the hell outta the guitar. Blew my ear drums on the Mug Museum tour.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 4 September 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
he latest one only came across to me as 'good' - I guess I like her when she is more eccentric and lets her wilder and more spiky tendencies hang out alongside her beautiful melodies - reward seemed too restrained for me but I still love her all the same
i wouldn't be surprised if i agree, in a few weeks! i've cycled back to the very beginning, working my way forward now
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 September 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
xp thought the same about hearing early cale in her music too recently
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 22 October 2020 06:00 (three years ago) link
Over time I have gone off her a bit. I finally saw her live a couple of times and she is great there but I find her a bit patchy on record.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 22 October 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
Same. Interest hit a high with Mug Museum and I loved that tour, but Crab Day and the newer one feel like she hit a wall.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 22 October 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
I guess it's where you come in (also in the sense that you often jump on when the band takes a direction that catches your fancy)
I started with Reward and am much more into that than Mug Museum
this reminds me of le Bon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR7YaLr-J9E
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 23 October 2020 06:41 (three years ago) link
I think Cyrk, Mug Museum, and Crab Day are all excellent - Mug Museum being the peak. Reward has its moments but does feel like a step down. It doesn't feel as off-center as the others. Also her work as part of Drinks is hit and miss too, so Crab Day is starting to feel a little further back in the rearview mirror. Still look forward to whatever she does next.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 23 October 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
I love Me Oh My, thought Cyrk had its moments but also got a bit too guitar wanky, liked Crab Day a lot, and didn't really get anywhere with Reward. I think it might be relevant that I bought Crab Day after seeing her live - maybe if I had seen her touring Reward or Cyrk I would have loved those too.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 23 October 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
Cyrk/Cyrk II have settled in as my favorites of hers, and maybe my favorite record of the 2010s. Each of the first three albums hit me right away. The Pere Ubuisms of Crab Day and the keyboard constructions of Reward put me off at first, but they grew. I think "Meet the Man" might be her greatest song yet, even.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Saturday, 24 October 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
I would assume this artist Accü is seriously influenced by her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONk8ZztrEyk
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Saturday, 24 October 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
Dana Gavanski too, I’d guesshttps://youtu.be/MPEgjKLh8bMMy taste in Cate is roughly the opposite of DV’s, I like her best at her most melodic and (maybe) stately. Reward’s probably my favourite; saw the London and Berlin Reward shows and the latter was amazingly good.
― Tim, Saturday, 24 October 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
A live concert film (to nobody) of Cate Le Bon performing the album Reward, that I directed, with a lot of help for @FOVCardiff is now streaming on YouTube - heavily recommended songs - free to watch https://t.co/xaX5Mre8qL 📷@H_HAWKLINE pic.twitter.com/mDzEzPJCzd— Gruff Rhys (@gruffingtonpost) March 24, 2021
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 12:32 (three years ago) link
oh hell yeah
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link