Cate Le Bon
Surreal. Transcendent. An architect of sound.
Welsh multi-disciplinary artist and producer Cate Le Bon’s work has long defied categorisation—an architect of sound who builds emotional landscapes from abstraction, texture, and tone.
Her seventh album, Michelangelo Dying, emerges from a place of raw emotion and reluctant vulnerability. A vivid grieving of a fantasy, the album is a shimmering song cycle that picks at wounds even as it tries to preserve them—an iridescent, layered meditation on love, loss, and the unknowable self.
With a moving guest collaboration with John Cale and a sonic palette that folds guitars, saxophones, and synths into something both intimate and expansive, Le Bon once again invites us into a world where feeling overrides form, and abstraction becomes its own kind of truth.
Bask in songs from the new album, and Le Bon’s other works this October.
Need to know
Venue: Sage Two (Theatre Layout)
Price: £33.80
Stage Times: Announced nearer showtime.
Age: Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult
About Cate Le Bon
Over six albums, including the Mercury Prize-nominated Reward and the critically acclaimed Pompeii, Cate Le Bon’s honed a singular voice: part surrealist, part sculptor, always attuned to the emotional undercurrents that shape her art. Her production credits—spanning Wilco’s Cousin, Horsegirl’s Phonetics On and On, and St. Vincent’s Grammy-winning All Born Screaming—reflect a deep trust in her ability to transform sonic environments into intimate, idiosyncratic worlds.
Born in rural Carmarthenshire, Wales, and now based in Cardiff, Le Bon’s creative path has been shaped by both solitude and collaboration. Her longstanding partnerships with co-producer Samur Khouja and saxophonist Euan Hinshelwood have become integral to her evolving sound—a blend of analog warmth, filtered vocals, and sculptural arrangements that feel both alien and deeply human.
