CATE LE BON - Michelangelo Dying LP grunge albeit of a blackly humorous

albeit of a blackly humorous

Fossora is a peculiar album

and cosmic country into a distinctive sound all their own

especially Zoot Sims who shines here on tenor

"Shiny Sister" drifts in on lilting Spanish-guitar melodies that gradually give way to ethereal

CATE LE BON - Michelangelo Dying LP grunge albeit of a blackly humorousWelsh artist, Cate le Bon's seventh album, Michelangelo Dying, finds her furthering her explorations of ambiguous emotional states and psychedelic sounds. The tempos here are stately and moods elegiac, or archly clever. The guitars are crystalline. The open production creates delicate prismatic refractions, glittering and glassy in their cool perfection. Sometimes the guitars shimmer like gemstones, other times they soar, like rockets trailing tails