will release her seventh album ‘Michelangelo Dying’ on September 26th.

The Welsh-born artist has lived in the States for the best part of a decade now, becoming the go-to producer for some top tier talent. Working on St. Vincent’s outstanding ‘All Born Screaming’, for example, Cate Le Bon has also released a series of absorbing records under her own name.

New album ‘Michelangelo Dying’ – her seventh to date – will be released later this year. , it was constructed somewhere between the Grecian island Hydra, Cardiff, London, and Los Angeles.

Finished in the Californian desert, production duties were shared alongside collaborator Samur Khouja.

Cate Le Bon explains…

“There’s this idea that you could do everything yourself, but the value of having someone you completely trust, as I do Samur, be your co-pilot allows you to get completely lost knowing you’ll get pulled back in at the right moment. We have come to quietly move as one in the studio.”

New song ‘Heaven Is No Feeling’ is an elegant start, with Cate Le Bon using her experience wisely. Working with precision and intent, the lyrics carry a poetic flourish:

 “I see you watch me work for your slow hand / Draping my body with no rhythm just desire / The day / The night / It all ends / And you smoke our love / Like you’ve never known violence.” 

H. Hawkline directs the video for ‘Heaven Is No Feeling’, and he comments:

“There are moments in life you can’t make up, that seem unfathomable, then they happen. Life calls you on a banana phone and tells you her oldest joke, everybody crowds around and you try to remember the words to your favourite song. If you were to ask me how we made this video, I couldn’t tell you. Cate watching her, watching her watching Cate. I will always feel honoured to work with Cate in whatever shape or form, it’s easy to forget how remarkable someone is when you’ve known them forever. ‘I want you to make me a new video.’ ‘Have you watched the old one yet?’ ‘No’ …Bravo!’”

Tune in now.

1. Jerome
2. Love Unrehearsed
3. Mothers of Riches
4. Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?
5. Pieces of My Heart
6. About Time
7. Heaven Is No Feeling
8. Body As A River
9. Ride (feat. John Cale)
10. I Know What’s Nice