Cryk rockets from the start in my opinion. Has anyone heard the new drinks lp?
― cw, Saturday, 18 March 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrqphXJZqS8
New H. Hawkline album is really good. Cate's fingerprints are all over it. They've got a lot in common. She produced and plays on the record, like she did on the last one.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 5 June 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
important thread revive: are she and Tim Presley a thing?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 04:37 (six years ago) link
seems so? Cate's classic as hell
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link
so classic
― alpine static, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 06:56 (six years ago) link
they met when he was in the Fall, no?
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
She's also doing something with Bradford Cox when they're in Marfa.
I thought she was dating the guy behind H. Hawkline.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
I assume thread was revived for this:
https://drinks.bandcamp.com/album/hippo-lite
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
Hippo Lite is pretty lame.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
Just sounds like bored people making boring music.
I guess the first one sort of sounded like that, but it was a LITTLE adventurous.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
She's producing the new Deerhunter album. Apparently. Will be looking forward to that.
Still think Hippo Lite is pretty bad.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 23 April 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
I really like Hippo Lite, I find it quite lovely, creepy and peppered with great songs, strange interludes and mirth. For me it has the same kind of elusive quality as Jane from occupied europe, odyshape or witch cults of the radio age where i listen to it compulsively, but it seems unfamiliar each time.
It would be an excellent soundtrack to a very stoned, very hot summer day spent by a brook.
It does drift out of focus a bit towards the end i grant you.
― cw, Saturday, 12 May 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
rock pool
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Monday, 2 July 2018 07:19 (five years ago) link
Hippo Lite might be the first legit bad thing she's done. she and Tim should've sat on it for a few weeks and/or given it another good listen and/or played it for a few friends and then decided it was best left on the shelf.
― alpine static, Monday, 2 July 2018 07:38 (five years ago) link
I like it better than the first Drinks, but I struggle to re-listen to either record. Their styles would seem similar enough, but their eccentricities don't blend particularly well.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Monday, 2 July 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
This conversation between Cate and Ariel Pink is kind of amusing...
https://www.talkhouse.com/ariel-pink-talks-with-cate-le-bon-for-the-talkhouse-podcast/
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 01:37 (five years ago) link
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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
she's been on a steady trajectory to greatness for a while
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:26 (four 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 (four years ago) link
"you don't love me" is pretty perfect
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:51 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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