Welsh artist Cate Le Bon has been reluctant to put in writing about love previously however embraces the heartache and challenges of breakup on her new album Michelangelo Dying.
ANDREW LIMBONG, HOST:
Breaking apart sucks. When a relationship crumbles, it could depart you feeling adrift, harm, indignant, unmoored – all these emotions jumbled into one depressing stew. It is not a terrific feeling. However these of us on the surface of the connection needs to be just a little grateful heartbreak hurts so dangerous as a result of it is given us some wonderful breakup data – “Rumours,” “Blood On The Tracks,” “Exile In Guyville,” “Igor,” “Bitter,” “Melodrama” and on and on and on and on. And now, the musician Cate Le Bon has thrown her hat into the ring along with her new album, “Michelangelo Dying.”
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “HEAVEN IS NO FEELING”)
CATE LE BON: What does she need? Oh, yeah.
LIMBONG: And he or she joins us now. Hello, Cate.
LE BON: Hiya. Hello.
LIMBONG: So the story of this album is that you just had been engaged on one thing completely different – proper? – a follow-up to your 2022 album “Pompeii,” which was an enormous vital success. After which a heartbreak occurred. And at what level did you understand that you just simply wanted to shift and work on one thing new?
LE BON: Properly, I feel I would been making an attempt to outrun heartache and convincing myself I used to be doing a reasonably good job. However, you recognize, I used to be actually simply carrying it round with me.
LIMBONG: Is songwriting a pure supply of consolation for you? Like, whenever you really feel wired in your day after day, do you end up, like, laying down bass tracks or one thing?
LE BON: (Laughter) It is what I wish to try to expertise and make sense of issues by both, you recognize, writing melodies or inside preparations. However scripting this report felt like a really needed instrument. It was, you recognize, one thing wanted to be handled, put down, in order that I may…
LIMBONG: Expunged, exercised, all these issues, proper?
LE BON: Oh, yeah, fully. You understand, in order that I may, you recognize, hope to make one thing that is not about heartache afterwards, you recognize?
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “LOVE UNREHEARSED”)
LE BON: (Singing) She’s an actual contender for a marble face.
LIMBONG: Should you’re simply becoming a member of us, we’re speaking to Cate Le Bon about her new album, “Michelangelo Dying.” You’re a sought-after producer and collaborator, proper? You’ve got labored with, like, Wilco, St. Vincent and all these different individuals. You understand, you had talked about earlier than that you just had been engaged on lots of different artists’ data. What have you ever realized from producing different artists that you’ve got been making use of to creating your individual music?
LE BON: I imply, there’s a lot, you recognize? I have been so fortunate. I feel Brad – working with Bradford Cox was like 20 years of expertise in a single, you recognize, recording session.
LIMBONG: That is Bradford Cox from Deerhunter, proper?
LE BON: Yeah.
LIMBONG: Yeah.
LE BON: Yeah. You understand, it was – Bradford actually taught me find out how to be – take up the house that was mine in a studio. You understand, Annie – St. Vincent – she’s sensible. She’s so, like, activated and so – you recognize, music is the whole lot to her. And, you recognize, a band like Horsegirl, I used to be fully blown away by how sensible they had been at speaking with one another and making one another really feel seen and heard. And, you recognize, that’s one thing that’s so necessary however typically missed, you recognize, in a studio.
LIMBONG: It is such as you’re build up a brilliant crew of indie rock stars.
LE BON: (Laughter).
(SOUNDBITE OF CATE LE BON SONG, “RIDE (FEAT JOHN CALE)”)
LIMBONG: Talking of rock stars, the nice John Cale reveals up as a visitor characteristic on this report. You understand…
LE BON: Yeah.
LIMBONG: …Listeners will know him as, you recognize, the composer, former member of The Velvet Underground. The track that he is on – proper? – if I am not mistaken – proper? – he is the one which sings, like, it is the final experience, proper?
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “RIDE (FEAT JOHN CALE)”)
LE BON: (Singing) It is a experience.
JOHN CALE: (Singing) It is the final experience.
LIMBONG: There’s one half the place he says – as a substitute of, it is the final experience, he says, it is my final experience.
LE BON: Yeah.
LIMBONG: Was that an advert lib on his half?
LE BON: It was. Yeah. Yeah.
LIMBONG: Did he go rogue? What did you suppose whenever you heard that?
LE BON: (Laughter) Rogue.
LIMBONG: That appeared like a sort of a pointed assertion.
LE BON: He sings, it is my final experience. It is their final experience – you recognize, one thing so private and turns into one thing so common. And, you recognize, if I am completely sincere, after I first heard it, I simply burst into tears (laughter). And yeah, you recognize, it is the ability of John Cale and his voice.
LIMBONG: Cate Le Bon, thanks. Thank a lot for taking your time, and congratulations on the album. It is actually nice.
LE BON: Oh, thanks a lot. Thanks for having me.
(SOUNDBITE OF CATE LE BON SONG, “RIDE (FEAT JOHN CALE)”)
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