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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon features a guest appearance by John Cale.
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- Record Label: Mexican Summer
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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- MojoSep 22, 2025It's a beauty. [Oct 2025, p.81]
- Sep 24, 2025[On "Pieces Of My Heart"] she sings, “I pledged my love to America/Then I run so far.” Talk about a lyric for our time. It’s just one of many moments where this alluringly opaque record becomes yearningly universal.
- Sep 25, 2025Heartbreak is rarely as raw or bittersweet as it is on Michelangelo Dying. It is a brave piece of work, Cate Le Bon surrendering to her feelings in a costly emotional investment but delivering a piece of work whose release must be immensely cathartic. Such inner strength proves ultimately uplifting.
- UncutSep 22, 2025Quite mesmeric. [Oct 2025, p.31]
- Sep 25, 2025The album unfolds at its own unhurried pace. Initially, it can feel almost vaporous, but its textural richness rewards patience; with each listen, new layers emerge, like light shifting through water at different times of day.
- Sep 30, 2025Le Bon’s production approach has shifted her musical universe far from the brittle, guitar-driven sounds of earlier, post-punk indebted records like Crab Day (2016) towards a distinctive sound that seems to reach backwards and forwards simultaneously. This feeling of being held in suspension characterizes many of Michelangelo Dying’s most affecting moments.
- Sep 25, 2025It continues the deepening specificity of Le Bon’s creative personality, with these songs representing the next notch of all of her various and unlikely components gelling into something that’s simply hers alone.
