CATE LE BON on haar new album POMPEII + LIVE SESSION
"Pompeii", Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated "Reward" , bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Pompeii is sonically minimal in parts, and its lyrics jog between self-reflection and direct address. Vulnerability, although “obscured,” challenges Le Bon’s tendencies towards irony. The songs of Pompeii feel suspended in time, both of the moment and instant but reactionary and Dada-esque in their insistence to be playful, satirical, and surreal.