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CATE LE BON releases her fourth album Crab Day on 15th April via Turnstile. Recorded at Panoramic House studio, California, Crab Day was produced by Noah Georgson and Josiah Steinbrick.
According to Cate: “Crab Day was lovingly formed in the mouth of the Pacific Ocean, as it quietly mocked us with its magnitude. It’s the sound of the ‘accidentally on purpose’ coming together of the right people at precisely the right time in an environment that furnished and fuelled the abandonment we felt effortlessly. It’s a coalition of inescapable feelings and fabricated nonsense, each propping the other up. Crab Day is an old holiday. Crab Day is a new holiday. Crab Day isn’t a holiday at all.”
To accompany Crab Day’s release, Cate recently spent time in Berlin where she shot a film directed by visual artist and film-maker Phil Collins.
CRAB DAY tracks… Crab Day, Love Is Not Love, Wonderful, Find Me, I’m A Dirty Attic, I Was Born On The Wrong Day, We Might Revolve, Yellow Blinds, Cream Shadows, How Do You Know? What’s Not Mine.
Cate was born in Penboyr, Camarthenshire and moved to Los Angeles in 2013. She has supported Gruff Rhys on tour and sang on Neon Neon’s ‘I Lust U’. Gruff described her as “Bobbie Gentry and Nico fight over Casio keyboard; melody wins”.
Cate’s third album Mug Museum featured H Hawkline and Sweet Baboo and she toured with Manic Street Preachers.
“..the music she creates under her own name more closely resembles The Velvet Underground & Nico relocated from Warhol’s Factory to a Welsh farmhouse, displaying an equal affinity for narcotic melodies and jangle-riff repetition, but with the East Village grime replaced by a certain lambswool coziness.”
Pitchfork
“(Cate)’s of her time, but not content to nibble on the leaves of alternative rock: she follows it right down to the root.”
NY Times