{"id":22836,"date":"2025-06-07T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22836"},"modified":"2025-06-07T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:52:54","slug":"cate-le-bon-set-to-release-new-record-michelangelo-dying-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22836","title":{"rendered":"Cate Le Bon set to release new record, Michelangelo Dying<\/em>, in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon<\/a> has announced the release of Michelangelo Dying<\/em>, her seventh album and follow-up to 2022\u2019s Pompeii<\/em>. Written in the thick of heartbreak, what began as one thing became another. \u201cIts creation led by pure emotion,\u201d says the press release. \u201cThe product of all-consuming heartache\u2026 it became a kind of exorcism.\u201d Michelangelo Dying<\/em> moves in cycles, without conclusion. \u201cThere is no reason. There is repetition and chaos,\u201d Le Bon explains. \u201cI eventually allowed myself a vacant mind to experience it without resistance and without searching for a revelation or order to any of it..\u201d<\/p>\n

The album was recorded between Hydra, Cardiff, London, Los Angeles, and the California desert, with Samur Khouja sharing production duties. Le Bon credits him with helping her get lost in the process while staying anchored. She comments:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s this idea that you could do everything yourself, but the value of having someone you completely trust, as I do Samur, be your co-pilot allows you to get completely lost knowing you\u2019ll get pulled back in at the right moment. We have come to quietly move as one in the studio.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ll have to wait until September 26th for the album to be out through Mexican Summer<\/a> but we can already hear the first single, ‘Heaven Is No Feeling’,\u00a0 offered alongside an accompanying video directed by longtime collaborator H. Hawkline. He had this to say about it:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are moments in life you can\u2019t make up, that seem unfathomable, then they happen. Life calls you on a banana phone and tells you her oldest joke, everybody crowds around and you try to remember the words to your favourite song. If you were to ask me how we made this video, I couldn\u2019t tell you. Cate watching her, watching her watching Cate. I will always feel honoured to work with Cate in whatever shape or form, it\u2019s easy to forget how remarkable someone is when you\u2019ve known them forever. \u2018I want you to make me a new video.\u2019 \u2018Have you watched the old one yet?\u2019 \u2018No\u2019 \u2026Bravo!\u2019”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watch the video below.
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