Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying [Indie-Exclusive Bone White Vinyl]

Its creation led by pure emotion, Cate Le Bon’s seventh record Michelangelo Dying usurped the album she thought she was making. The product of all-consuming heartache, her feelings overrode her reluctance to write an album about love, and in the process became a kind of exorcism. What emerges is a wonderfully iridescent attempt to photograph a wound before it closes up — but which in doing so, picks at it too.

Musically, there is a continuation and expansion of a sound — a machine with a heart — that has taken shape over her last two records (2019’s Reward and 2022’s Pompeii) as Le Bon has increasingly taken control of the playing and producing herself. As guitars and saxophones are pushed through pedals and percussion and voices are fed through filters, an iridescent, green and silky sound emerges, with flashes of the artistic singularities of David Bowie, Nico, John McGeoch and Laurie Anderson surfacing and disappearing below the waterline throughout.

For fans of: St. Vincent, Horsegirl, Perfume Genius, John Grant, Deerhunter, Devendra Banhart, Wilco, Gruff Rhys, Dry Cleaning, Electrelane, Aldous Harding, Arthur Russell, Pulp, John Cale, Sasami, Nadine Shah, The Clientele, U.S. Girls, Yo La Tengo, Chris Cohen, Broadcast, Julia Holter, Angel Olsen, Mega Bog, H. Hawkline

Format / LP
Released / 09/26/2025
Catalogue / MXSU-3530
Barcode / 184923135305
Artist / Cate Le Bon
Label / Mexican Summer
Genre / Pop / Rock