“One of the most original artists in indie music comes up with something opaquely alluring and genuinely moving on her seventh album, Michelangelo Dying”
“On Le Bon’s seventh album, murky synthesizers and sweeping saxophones landscape her neo-psychedelic, modernist universe, and her voice gets closer to the listener than ever before.”
“The Welsh musician composed her seventh album in the wake of fresh heartbreak. In songs that pair ornate arrangements and billowing melodies, she conjures mystery and surrenders to her own experience.”
“Cate Le Bon's new album is about heartbreak. The thing with albums about heartbreak, though, is when they come from folks this clever and artful, it helps to have the liner notes about lingering in the desolation of California deserts to further illuminate things. In other words, Michelangelo Dying is sad in the way David Bowie's Low is sad — a blurred neon dream where the singer croons and the sa”
