Cate Le Bon - classic or dud

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This is dripping in atmosphere. I love it.

afriendlypioneer, Friday, 4 February 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link

Like her last album, this isn’t bad but I miss the more jagged guitars of her first few albums. I’m not as keen on the synths/sax combo. Just my personal taste but I rarely go for songs with saxophone

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 4 February 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link

Polar opposite for me. This is the first time I'm buying what she's selling for more than a minute or two.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 4 February 2022 19:42 (two years ago) link

masterpiece imo

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 4 February 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link

the new bryan ferry

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 February 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link

And that's a fine place to aim for!

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 February 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link

I keep hearing 10,000 Maniacs' "Like the Weather" somewhere in "Moderation"

10,000 Maniacs have a much better drummer

Freeze Instr., Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link

oh man, not comparing the drummers directly (i don't know 10K maniacs very well at all), but i love the drummer. i read somewhere about their drumming being driven by carefully placed bass drum kicks, recently, and that's what I focus on

Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link

i'm still digesting the album. i got so, so used to Moderation leading directly into Running Away - just a casualty of the several months of 1-3 songs approach to PR, but those two became intertwined, for me.

Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link

Yeah maybe not a fair comparison. That sort of late 80s light snappy rolling feel leads in the direction of Rusted Root

It feels to me like Pompeii's drums are dragging at the tempo, as if they're intentionally slowing everything down, a sluggish almost DJ Screw effect

Freeze Instr., Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link

the song "Pompeii" is hitting me, now, on the 3rd time through. now every corner of it feels so right, where it drifted right on past the first couple times. i do love the sound of her current line-up/instrumentation, so much.

Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link

The album is growing on me. I think I do like it more than the last album.

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link

speaking of amazing guitar parts, both subtle and riffage, they're both in "Remembering Me"

the subtle can be heard during the chorus, the the thin wobbling snake between some of the lines and during some of the others:

Upset, and out of touch
Good grief, you miss so much
Oh, oh, remember me
Louder than empty rooms
Face down in heirlooms
Oh, oh, remembering me

that is positively slinking

later on, the riffage is later, at 3:00, the solo. it's like alt arena rock busts in all of a sudden but it's perfect

Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link

the thin wobbling snake

i want to go ahead and express my regret for this description of the guitar line, lol

Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link

the positively slinking thin wobbling snake

:-|

Karl Malone, Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link

terrific bass on this record, reminds me of john giblin's playing on john martyn's grace & danger but less cagey.

adam, Monday, 7 February 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link

Press material says she mostly composed it on bass

bendy, Monday, 7 February 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link

i JUST noticed the big obvious thing about the beginning of the title track "Pompeii", which is that it follows the exactly melodic scheme of the ending of the previous song, "French Boys"

also, i LOVE the chorus of "Pompeii", particularly the background vocal counterpart, the wordless "ooom-PAAAH!", and how it reinforces a kind of half-time feel

All my life in sentiment
All my language is vulgar and true
I've pushed love through the hourglass
Did you see me putting pain in a stone?

snarl self own (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 February 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link

really really liking this album, possibly even more than the last ones. her herky-jerk rhythms are so mesmerizing and it seems like she's leveled up the arrangements. some great guitar tones on here too.

still looking for an earworm like "home to you," but maybe one will reveal itself in time.

roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Monday, 14 February 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link

the new molly nilsson album also has a song called "pompeii"

na (NA), Monday, 14 February 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

This record is wonderful. The bass, the arrangements, the rhythms - so much pleasure for the ears. I missed her in Glasgow last week because I got Covid, which is a shame because seeing her play the previous record live really opened it up to me. And I would have loved to see the parts of Pompeii come together before my eyes.

Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link

yeah it's so good. maybe my favorite of hers.

akm, Saturday, 26 March 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link

ditto

brimstead, Saturday, 26 March 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link

me too i think, that or cyrk anyway, and i think this one has the stronger songs.

cw, Monday, 28 March 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link

Was playing it yesterday on a trip back from my folks and my sis, who is a fan to start with, was very taken by how much the guitars reminded her of Ween (who she is also a stone cold fan of).

Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 March 2022 20:15 (two years ago) link

We saw her tonight in Lille (I missed the London show for reasons of family illness) and she was fantastic.

Tim, Monday, 28 March 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

le bon alert - she is on the new kurt vile album track "Jesus on a Wire"

Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link

it's a snoozer. she just does some backup vox. not sure i would know it was her if i didn't know

Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

saw her last night - my third time, better than the reward tour IMO (although that was great) - new songs sound fantastic live and the reward songs sounded like utter classics given a light pompeii makeover - not that familiar with the new LP but whoever mentioned Avalon vibes upthread was otm

the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Thursday, 9 June 2022 23:08 (two years ago) link

not to hijack the revive, but i regret not buying one of her mugs from her in the Mug Museum days.

alpine static, Friday, 10 June 2022 05:32 (two years ago) link

three months pass...

New single "Typical Love" out today. Dunno if this is a teaser for a physical release or will just a digital thing, but did not expect anything else this year. Already on Spotify, and video debuts at 10am ET:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOJ4NVu_4GM

city worker, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link

five months pass...

she produced this it's rly good, and i'm seeing him next week: https://hhawkline.bandcamp.com/album/milk-for-flowers

here's an article to give a flavour: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/h-hawkline-tells-us-about-the-influences-behind-new-album-milk-for-flowers

imago, Friday, 10 March 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link

oh i didn't know there was a new h. hawkline album. i believe he was previously in a relationship with le bon and was later in a relationship with aldous harding, though he must be on good terms with both since le bon produced this and he played bass for harding and opened for her last year on her tour

na (NA), Friday, 10 March 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link

must be one charming scamp

imago, Friday, 10 March 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link

https://hhawkline.bandcamp.com/track/last-thing-on-your-mind

this song from his last album was a real showstopper when i saw him

na (NA), Friday, 10 March 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link

ty, shall have a listen!

i got the tickets cos of the support act (alice low, documented here) but he's proving an excellent discovery in his own right

imago, Friday, 10 March 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link

this song you posted is lovely yeah

imago, Friday, 10 March 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link

thanks for sharing imago, have always loved his song "engineers"

will check out

avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 March 2023 20:49 (one year ago) link

neat!

i ended up liking the CLB song that placed in the ILX poll more than I thought I would, so her recent album will be given a full going-over too

imago, Friday, 10 March 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link

wait, by 'song that placed' i mean 'someone's indicated track from the album that placed'

imago, Friday, 10 March 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link

it’s a damn great album.

not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 10 March 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link

(pompeii

not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 10 March 2023 21:08 (one year ago) link

oh i didn't know there was a new h. hawkline album. i believe he was previously in a relationship with le bon and was later in a relationship with aldous harding,

This is interesting to me because I often mix up cate le bon and aldous harding. Hope h hawkline doesn’t have the same issue.

treeship., Friday, 10 March 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link

the atonal audio smudging in the pompeii title track is very pleasing

imago, Friday, 10 March 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link

wait, by 'song that placed' i mean 'someone's indicated track from the album that placed'

Ha, I got excited about that version of history for a few milliseconds. (I have a feeling I was her sole voter tracks-wise.)

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 10 March 2023 22:31 (one year ago) link

Hawkline's arrangements *are* palpably Lebonian innit. Nice.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 10 March 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link

Their earlier stuff was sometimes almost indistinguishable, this one would have been quite at home on Me Oh My: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUmLrBqfh8

cw, Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:10 (one year ago) link

Absolutely. I saw Cate on the Mug Museum tour and he opened for her and their bands were the same, with the exception of the front person. Both great. He's released lots of good stuff.

afriendlypioneer, Monday, 13 March 2023 01:00 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

finally a new record coming!: https://www.wmc.org.uk/en/llais/2024/cate-le-bon

bulb after bulb, Thursday, 9 May 2024 13:25 (five months ago) link

one month passes...

Both the shows scheduled for later this year have been cancelled - any clues why?

Tim, Thursday, 4 July 2024 14:55 (three months ago) link


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