Cate Le Bon - classic or dud

Crab Day is the weakest but still knows how to lay on the charm. Too many chattering marimbas is the shortcoming for me.

is that true? that's good to know! i need to go back to the earliest stuff too, that's a total blind spot for me right now.

i have to say, i didn't like the collab with Bradford Cox, and that was surprising because i really like his music

the only one i liked was the closer, "what is she wearing", which doesn't even start to get good until 3 minutes in iirc

this is so otm, re: the second Drinks album:

Just sounds like bored people making boring music.

hard to think of a more lifeless record by two rad geniuses

Crab Day is the weakest but still knows how to lay on the charm. Too many chattering marimbas is the shortcoming for me.

I also hoped this revive was for a new record, but I did see the website is back under construction ("in ruins") so hopefully soon?

agree hard out with missing her guitar playing - that vid above is stellar evidence of how good she is when she chooses to get messy / also agree Crab Day is her best record the oblique sharp edges make it much better for me than Reward which was decent but seemed a little too pored over & overstuffed with ideas to the extent it seemed to suck a little of the life & spontenaiety out of her sound - of course the one I like the least was her almost 'crossover' & v popular - anyways bring back that guitar wonk pls Cate!

which is most crossover and popular?

I thought Reward kinda got close - didn't it nominated for a big award in the UK - I noticed a lot more press for it than previously so I assumed it did the best out of all of her records

Crab Day is where she started running out of songs

Reward is where she lost her personality.

I used to really dig her music. Dunno. I'm surprised those two seemed to get more attention than the rest.

I see I made that same post a year ago. Sorry. Bad memory.

was hoping this revive was for a desperately needed new record. she is amazing.

― bulb after bulb, Thursday, October 7, 2021 6:19 PM (four days ago)

Welp, https://catelebon.ffm.to/mmxxii

we did it!

Cyrk and Mug Museum are great. Don’t get Crab Day… Reward is better mainly for the arrangements and some interesting sound palette. It does seem like the songwriting shifts dramatically after Mug Museum.

I like being into the wrong one! I’m like the U2 fan who is only into their 2000s material

very happy news!

It is indeed. CLB always scores a good autumn. The 8 second tease thing sounds pleasingly scary monsters-ish and the chain mail is a strong look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYibZJk7qes

yessss it rules

shit, i am happy and disappointed. i like the song a lot - i'm a sucker for her lineup right now, with the horn heavy composition, the staccato bass, the melancholy evening slink. "It's the sweetest thing / That you never have", that part, the first time it hits, is wonderful.

i am disappointed because i didn't do my "research" and thought the whole album was out today. i don't like this thing where you get singles for 4 months before the album

new one in a few minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6a7WeVYnSs

Cate has gone the full mid/late period Roxy! absolutely ravishing.love the video also.

new one is reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally good, fuck yeah

can someone help me transcribe? i aspire to be a GENIUS scholar, and i already have a bunch of points from a recent obsession with the pepsi looping lo-fi beats songs/community.

I get by when high (?) in the sky but
I can't put my finger on it
I want to cry, I'm not in my mind
Trying to figure it out

Moderation
I can't have it
I don't want it
I want to touch it

Picture the party where you're standing in the modern age (?)
I was in trouble with the habit of his
And I try to relate

I get by pushing poets aside
Cos you can't beat the Mother of Pearl
I could be out found (?)
Out of my mind at the fruit of it all

Moderation
I can't have it
I don't want it
I want to touch it

Picture the party where you're standing in the modern age (?)
I was in trouble with the habit of his
And I try to relate
To the messed up air (?)

Tell it to her (?)
Tell it to the (?)
?

Picture the party where you're standing in the modern age (?)
I was in trouble with the habit of his
And I try to relate

Moderation, I can't have it, I don't want it, I want to touch it

is a wonderful lyric

but what the hell is she saying in that bridge near the end?

Tell it to the mass?

Tell it through a mask?

(on the modern age)
(a habit of his)?

Tell it through a mask?

sorry, that's not it

a youtube commenter confirmed that it was "Picture the party where you're standing in the modern age"

the lyrics are up on apple music, i just don't have an account

I get by
One eye on the sky
But I can't put my finger on it
I wanna cry, I'm out of my mind
Trying to figure it out.

Moderation -
I can't stand it.
I don't want it.
I want to touch it.

Picture the party when you're standing on a modern age.
I was in trouble with a habit of years
And I try
To relate.
I get by pushing poets aside
Cause they can't beat the mother of pearl
I quit the earth, I'm out of my mind
And the fruit of it all?

Moderation.....

Tethered to a mess.

Tethered to a mess! I think that's right, thanks. And One eye on the sky, that sounds right too! I think the first line after Moderation is "I can't have it", rather than "I can't stand it". And I love "I quit the earth" but it kind of sounds like "I could be off" too? Waiting for apple music subscriber confirmation

bulb after bulb's post appears copied from Apple Music

I thought so too, but then saw the ? after And the fruit of it all (which, I can't figure that part either!)

only apple subscribers may know! down with apple and their Big Lyrics monopoly!

yes, from Apple Music, question mark and all. no guarantee of results.

oh, nice, thanks! I will update the genius lyrics accordingly :-o

reminds me of the shins

"Moderation" is phenomenal and the other song's pretty swell too. I'm excited.

yeah, i am so ready to hear the whole damn thing. "Running Away" sounds even better following "Moderation", I think. i fucking love her instrumentation on the last few releases - the steady lineup of keyboards, bass, a small woodwind/horn section, minimal guitar (if any?)

I'm not cold by nature
This could bring me to my knees
The fountain that empties the world
Too beautiful to hold
Multidirectional love
With nowhere left to go
There no where to let go

"I'm not cold by nature" kills me, right through the heart

meanwhile, with "Moderation", i think may have actively pissed off one or more of my friends by talking too much about it, recently. I had "moderation" fever and i tried to spread it to others, but no one cared.

haven't read this yet, but looking forward to it:

https://pitchfork.com/features/profile/cate-le-bon-interview-pompeii/

!!

Twenty minutes down the road, in a loud, austere pizza restaurant, Le Bon seems to know everyone. The staff are elated to see her, she takes their hands in hers. Throughout the night, she strikes up conversations with most people there. To the locals, she’s known as a regular at the Joshua Tree Saloon, where karaoke nights are run twice weekly by actor Mario Lopez (aka Saved By the Bell’s A.C. Slater). “I still haven’t quite figured out what my karaoke song is,” she says. “I like to do crowd-pleasers that have really good intros, get everyone pumped, and then come in with these really low, droll vocals that can’t quite hit the spot.”

!

that would make traveling to the Pappy and Harriet's show she has coming up worth making.

i didn't know about her side project with her partner, DRINKS. giving that a listen today

it's ... not great.

they are both great, but not everything should be released.

imo.

The second DRINKS album is better than the first though neither hold a candle to her solo material

I'm now almost unreasonably keen to hear the other 6/9 of this long-player. Counting the hours, etc, etc...

Wow, Karl Malone's "Daylight Matters" story from October is... wowee zowee. Bless.

Seeing her in Woodstock, Sunday. Been too long, she's so amazing live.