Cate Le Bon - classic or dud

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.

The relative uniformity of tone is making Pompeii a little hard to crack after 2.5 listens. Though I'm pretty sure the opener, title track and "Cry Me Old Trouble", at least, will shortly unravel in a pleasing fashion, much as the singles did.

do you have the whole thing? i just now realized a third single is up now ("remembering me")

Full 9 tracks on Tidal and Spotify. (I may be benefiting from the GMT+10 "living slightly in the future" thing though.)

ah, ok! still not up for me, but I'm sure it will be soon.

"French Boys" and "Wheel" are working for me now. Not least in the bass department. Desperately need a lyric sheet though!

Belatedly realising that "Harbour" is pretty damn earworm'y. A bit of a "Home To You" in that it's the easiest to imagine hearing by chance in a shopping mall lol.

This is dripping in atmosphere. I love it.

Like her last album, this isn’t bad but I miss the more jagged guitars of her first few albums. I’m not as keen on the synths/sax combo. Just my personal taste but I rarely go for songs with saxophone

Polar opposite for me. This is the first time I'm buying what she's selling for more than a minute or two.

masterpiece imo

the new bryan ferry

And that's a fine place to aim for!

I keep hearing 10,000 Maniacs' "Like the Weather" somewhere in "Moderation"

10,000 Maniacs have a much better drummer

oh man, not comparing the drummers directly (i don't know 10K maniacs very well at all), but i love the drummer. i read somewhere about their drumming being driven by carefully placed bass drum kicks, recently, and that's what I focus on

i'm still digesting the album. i got so, so used to Moderation leading directly into Running Away - just a casualty of the several months of 1-3 songs approach to PR, but those two became intertwined, for me.

Yeah maybe not a fair comparison. That sort of late 80s light snappy rolling feel leads in the direction of Rusted Root

It feels to me like Pompeii's drums are dragging at the tempo, as if they're intentionally slowing everything down, a sluggish almost DJ Screw effect

the song "Pompeii" is hitting me, now, on the 3rd time through. now every corner of it feels so right, where it drifted right on past the first couple times. i do love the sound of her current line-up/instrumentation, so much.

The album is growing on me. I think I do like it more than the last album.