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Michelangelo Dying

by Cate Le Bon

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Glyn Morton Fantastic album; this is my standout track. Favorite track: Mothers of Riches.
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bmouf_01 This album ihas an incredibly deep feeling. Such striking deep emotion. I feel cate le bon has always been good and always getting better. Love to music. ❤️
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cnefdt This is an enchanting album from a remarkable artist. A couple of very strong, more commercial tracks like 'Heaven Is No Feeling'.
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Jerome 04:06
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Love Unrehearsed 04:14
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Mothers of Riches 04:34
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4.
Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)? 05:47
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Pieces of My Heart 03:39
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About Time 03:30
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Heaven Is No Feeling 03:48
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Body as a River 04:30
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Ride feat. John Cale 03:53
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I Know What's Nice 05:20
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about

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 (2019s Reward and 2022s 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.

What were left with is an ever-changing, continuous entity, a kind of song cycle. Each iteration reflects and progresses the last, each one a shard of the same broken mirror shifting, glinting, concealing and revealing, depending on how it is turned in the light. There are ultimately, Cate asserts, No revelations. No conclusions. There is no reason. There is repetition and chaos. I eventually allowed myself a vacant mind to experience it without resistance and without searching for a revelation or order to any of it.

An exercise in the viscerality of life, of love, of humanity for both listener and artist, Michelangelo Dying knows what it is to hold, to be held, and to be exquisitely, profoundly alone. "The characters are interchangeable" concludes Cate, "but at the end of it all, its me meeting myself."

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released September 26, 2025

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Cate Le Bon is an artist hailing from Carmarthenshire, rural West Wales. Cate Le Bon’s solo work has always resisted pigeonholing, walking the tightrope between krautrock aloofness and heartbreaking tenderness; deadpan served with a twinkle in the eye, a flick of the fringe and a lick of the Telecaster. ... more

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