#cate le bon

[orions-bolt]

My top albums from 2022 (#1 - 16)

i tried to keep this to my top 10 but it was just too good of a year for music

#music #sudan archives #beyonce #nilufer yanya #shygirl #beabadoobee #weyes blood #sasami #soccer mommy #ravyn lenae #ethel cain #angel olsen #luna li #aldous harding #grace ives #florist #cate le bon

[ifuckinglovestvincent]

#duuuuuuude when can I get drunk with Anne #st vincent #annie clark #ig stories #courtney barnett #cate le bon

[pastabot]

I’m A Miserable Pig // DRINKS

#DRINKS #Cate le Bon #Tim Presley #I Am A Miserable Pig #music #Bandcamp

[mack-anthology-mp3]

portrait of a lady...

#pj harvey #to bring you my love #bjork #debut #aldous harding #warm chris #patti smith #horses #hole #live through this #marianne faithfull #broken english #cate le bon #pompeii #joni mitchell #clouds #radio ethiopia #cds #cd collection #album art

[hunklet]

Here It Comes Again Cate Le Bon, Reward (2019)

#cate le bon #here it comes again #literally it's coming again here it comes again... #m #Bandcamp

[studiopapierchiffon]

two mixed media posters

#poster design #mixed media #cate le bon #moby #song lyrics #artwork #collage art #digital collage #collage artist

[azlyricsdotcom]

Like You Do // H. Hawkline // Milk For Flowers (2023)

#h. hawkline #h hawkline #cate le bon #m #2020s #2023

[manysmallhands]

FearOfMu21c #34

Cate Le Bon - Puts Me To Work

Released - Sept 27, 2011

Did not chart

Spotify streams to date - 365,446

There was a period  in my illness when I could only listen to music in short spells, so I used to record late night radio programmes and then play them in bits during the day. Even though I only got through about one full programme per week, I must have heard Puts Me To Work about a dozen times during late 2011. There’s a warm, sluggish joy about the song, something that fits in neatly with memories of lying undercover and getting a few moments of something rationed, but its tone is one of resigned sorrow rather than happiness.

At the time, I remember much being made of the supposedly “limited” emotional range of Cate’s voice, but the idea that she’s somehow cold or unemotive mistakes her perspective entirely. Puts Me to Work is about the desire to make a relationship work when only one person is trying and her vocal reflects that, a mixture of warmth, resentment and weary acquiescence as she plots out a future that only she’s prepared to pull towards.

That slow motion vibe is very much apparent in the music, with its pace which never quite seems to move as fast as you think it should but still carries a powerful momentum. The drums in particular are hammered out with the kind of joy and clatter of something being played by a child, while the piano is at once chiming and sticky, coating the song in a treacly psychedelia that soaks thru to the core. It all builds up to a glorious yell at the end where joy at the heart of the music hits full pitch, with the drums striking out as if to power the lovers thru their romantic inertia. It’s the crowning moment of a bittersweet masterpiece, where everything fits together perfectly in its own neatly dysfunctional way.

#50favouritesingles #fearofmu21c #10s music #indie rock #Cate Le Bon #Youtube

[bandcampsnoop]

1/7/23.

I thought for sure I had posted about Aoife Nessa Frances' amazing debut album "Land of No Junction". I think I heard about it a few years ago from a Ba Da Bing! newsletter, and I remember listening to it so much that the "The time has come to open thy heart/wallet" message came on.

Frances is from Dublin, Ireland and works with Cian Nugent. Her music reminds me of Cate Le Bon, Tiny Ruins, or Weyes Blood. This is gentle yet expansive and beautiful.

This was released originally by Basin Rock, but there is also a limited run co-released by Basin Rock and Ba Da Bing!.

#Aoife Nessa Frances #Ireland #Dublin #Basin Rock #Ba Da Bing! #Cian Nugent #Cate Le Bon #Tiny Ruins #Weyes Blood #Bandcamp

[dustedmagazine]

Learning to go out again:  Jennifer Kelly’s 2022 in review

Meg Baird plays Chicago

Meg Baird calls it “people practice,” the ordinary skills that we require to interact successfully with other human beings. Small talk, the appropriate amount of eye contact, a certain minimal degree of comfort in crowds: these are all things that eroded in the pandemic.  And going even further, I’d add we ran short of “leaving your living room practice,” the difficult process of readjusting to unpredictable environments again. I got really bad at that in 2020 and 2021.

So, while 2022 was, in many ways, a joyous return to the norm, it was also deeply uncomfortable. Again and again, I’d show up far too early to shows and avoid talking to strangers.  I’d mistake soundchecks for music. I’d get bands mixed up and think the opener was the headliner or at least the second band. It was like I’d never been to a show in my life.  But gradually, over a year that was really genuinely rich in opportunities to see live music, I started to remember why I loved it — and how to be marginally less annoying to everyone around me. And I got to see some wonderful performances.

There was James Xerxes Fussell’s intricately re-arranged Americana on the eve of a blizzard in January and Jaimie Branch’s mesmerizing Anteloper just a month or so before she died. Our local festival, Thing in the Spring, once again delivered incredible abundance with Lee Ranaldo, Myriam Gendron, Jeff Parker, Tashji Dorji and others all taking turns on the stage. I experienced the twilight magic of Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles on a back porch in Northampton as the bats darted overhead, as well as the viscera-stirring low tones of Sarah Davachi at a three-story-tall pipe organ at Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro. I got to see one of my very favorite bands, Oneida, at a club in Greenfield, MA, late in the year. I saw my friend Eric Gagne’s band Footings expand Bonny Prince Billy’s songs into epic, twanging bravado. Yo La Tengo came to my tiny little town and tore the place down.  In Chicago for my birthday weekend, I got a chance to hear Meg Baird and Chris Forsyth at a whiskey distillery on the Chicago River. It was a great year. I’m so glad I was there for it.  

It was also an exceptional year for recorded music as, honestly, it always is. Here are the records I enjoyed the most in 2022, but don’t pay too much attention to the numbers. The order could change tomorrow, and I may very well discover more favorites in other people’s lists.  (We’ll have a Slept On feature at some point early in 2023.) I’ve written a little bit about the top ten, but you can find longer reviews of most of them in the Dusted archives. I’ve linked these where available.

1. Winged Wheel—No Island (12XU): An underground-all-star remote collaboration melds the hard punk jangle of Rider/Horse’s Cory Plump, the unyielding percussion of Fred Thomas, the radiant guitar textures of Matthew J. Rolin and the ethereal vocal atmospheres of Matchess’ Whitney Johnson in a driving, enveloping otherworld. Just gorgeous.  

2. Oneida—Success (Joyful Noise): The best band of the aughts has dabbled in all manner of droning, experimental forms in recent years, but with Success, they return to basics.  “Beat Me to the Punch” and “I Wanna Hold Your Electric Hand” are gleeful bangers.  “Paralyzed” is a keyboard pulsing, beat-rattling psychedelic dreamworld. Success is Oneida’s best album since Secret Wars and maybe ever. (I wrote the one-sheet for Success, but I would feel this way regardless.)

3. Cate Le Bon—Pompeii (Drag City): Eerie, madcap Pompeii refracts pandemic alienation through the lens of ancient disaster, floating narcotic imagery atop herky-jerk rhythms.  Abstract and experimental, but also sublimely pop, Pompeii haunts and charms in equal measure.  

4. Destroyer—Labyrinthitis (Merge):  Dan Bejar is always interesting, but the COVID lockdown seems to have shaken him loose a bit. Labyrinthitis is typically arch, elliptical and elegant, but also a bit unhinged. Hear it in the extended rap that closes “June” or in the manic disco beat of “Suffer” or oblique but perfect wordplay in “Tinoretto, It’s for You.”  

5. Horsegirl—Versions of Modern Performance (Matador): Horsegirl elicits a lysergic roar that’s loud but somehow serene, urgent but chilled. The trio out of Chicago were everywhere suddenly and all at once, as sometimes happens to bands, but on the strength of “World of Pots and Pans” and “Billy” I suspect they’ll stick around.  

6. Jake Xerxes Fussell—Good and Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors): An early favorite that refused to fade, Good and Green Again considers old-time music from a variety of angles, often incorporating more than one version of a traditional tune in a seamless way.  The music is lovely, made more exquisite still by James Elkington’s arrangements, which are subtle, right and unexpected.  

7. Lambchop—The Bible (Merge): Stark and lavish at the same time, The Bible catches Kurt Wagner at his morose and mesmerizing best. Surreal sonic textures—including orchestral flourishes and autotuned funk beats—wreathe his weathered baritone, as he traipses through ordinary landscapes turned strange and warped.  

8. The Weather Station—How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars (Fat Possum): Tamara Lindeman drew on Toronto’s vibrant jazz community to form her band for this sixth album as the Weather Station. The band improvised alongside here as it learned the songs. As a result, these songs have the usual pristine folk purity, but also a haze of late night sophistication in elegant runs of piano and pensive plucks of bass.  

9. The Reds, Pinks and Purples—Summer at Land’s End (Slumberland): Glenn Donaldson is pretty much the best at bittersweet jangle pop right now, and this wistful, graceful collection of songs about life’s dissatisfactions is every bit as good as last year’s Uncommon Weather. Plus it’s got a seven-plus minute improvised guitar piece right in the middle, what’s not to love?

10. Tha Retail Simps—Reverberant Scratch (Total Punk): Montreal’s Retail Simps make ferocious garage rock with a bit of soul in its tail feathers. “Hit and Run” sounds like a lost Sam and the Shams b-side and “End of Times – Hip Shaker” with having doing exactly that. If they ever remake Animal House, here’s the band. 

25 more albums I loved: 

Non Plus Temps—Desire Choir (Post-Present Medium)

Joan Shelley—The Spur (Important)

Mountain Goats—Bleed Out (Merge)

The Sadies—Colder Streams (Yep Roc)

Spiritualized—Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)

Superchunk—Wild Loneliness (Merge)

Hammered Hulls—Careening (Dischord)

Kilynn Lunsford—Custodians of Human Succession (Ever/Never)

Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin—Ghosted (Drag City)

Green/Blue—Paper Thin (Feel It)

E—Any Information (Silver Rocket)

Sick Thoughts—Heaven Is No Fun (Total Punk)

Pedro the Lion—Havasu (Polyvinyl)

Pan*American—The Patience Fader (Kranky)

Weak Signal—War & War (Colonel)

Frog Eyes—The Bees (Paper Bag)

Pinch Points—Process (Exploding in Sound)

LIFE—True North (The Liquid Label)

Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena—West Kensington (Three Lobed)

Wau Wau Collectif—Mariage (Sahel Sounds)

Vintage Crop—Kibitzer (Upset the Rhythm)

Anna Tivel—Outsiders (Mama Bird)

Chronophage—S-T (Post-Present Medium/Bruit Direct Disques)

Sélébéyone— Xaybu: The Unseen (Pi)

Zachary Cale—Skywriting (Org Music)

Jennifer Kelly

#dusted magazine #yearend 2022 #jennifer kelly #winged wheel #oneida #cate le bon #destroyer #horsegirl #jake xerxes fussell #lambchop #the weather station #the reds pinks and purples #tha retail simpls

[ifuckinglovestvincent]

#st vincent #annie clark #ig stories #l thought the cigarette hand was Anne’s and was about to yell at her #from my blog #cate le bon #Toko Yasuda #of course cate is a Pisces #💅

[krispyweiss]

Song Review - Wilco - “Evicted”

Promotional materials declare Wilco’s forthcoming LP is a move away from “their country-influenced roots” and back toward “their more familiar progressive and experimental rock territory.”

Which makes “Evicted,” the lead single from Cousin, sound really awkward because, despite some atmospheric flourishes, the track is totally country- (and folk-) leaning as Jeff Tweedy sings:

Am I ever going to see you again/I’m evicted/from your heart/I deserve it

Out Sept. 29, Cousin is produced by Cate Le Bon, who is said to have brought “her unique musical perspective to the band’s trademark sound, and provided them with an inspiring new challenge to push their musical boundaries.” The band is obviously trying to build buzz, but “Evicted” jibes with the promotional material in the same way the not-guilty pleas from rhymes with Fondled Dump jibe with the evidence in his indictments.

And the song isn’t even very exciting or clever.

Grade card: Wilco - “Evicted” - C

8/1/23

#wilco #cousin #evicted #jeff tweedy #nels cline #mikael jorgensen #glenn kotche #john stirratt #pat sansone #Youtube #cate le bon

[kilimiria]

Albums I was obsessed with in 2022:

Nilüfer Yanya - Painless

Ive - Love Dive

Tamino - Sahar

Rosalia - Motomami

Charlotte Cardin - Phoenix

Bilal Hassani - Théorème

Cate Le Bon - Pompeii

Hyuna - I’m not cool

Blackpink - Born Pink

#music #rosalia #hyuna #ive #tamino #nilufer yanya #cate le bon #blackpink #charlotte cardin #bilal hassani

[paxdron]

Mis Canciones Favoritas del 2022

Alvvays - After The Earthquake

The Lazy Eyes - Where Is My Brain?

Stella Donnelly - How Was Your Day?

Angel Olsen - Chasing The Sun

Weyes Blood - The Worst Is Done

Kristine Leschper - The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door

Julia Jacklin - Be Careful With Yourself

Katy J Pearson - Float

Sophie May - Drop In The Ocean

Renata Zeiguer - Sunset Boulevard

La Femme - Ballade Arabo-Andalouse

Natalia Lafourcade - El Lugar Correcto

Sharon Van Etten - Mistakes

Black Country, New Road - The Place Where He Inserted The Blade

Melody's Echo Chamber - Looking Backward

black midi - Welcome To Hell

Beach House - Through Me

Soccer Mommy - Shotgun

Cate Le Bon - Moderation

Osees - Fucking Kill Me

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gondii

Mitski - Stay Soft

Big Thief - Spud Infinity

Tallies - No Dreams Of Fayres

Kendrick Lamar - N95

Wet Leg - Angelica

Arcade Fire - Age of Anxiety II

Otoboke Beaver - I checked your cellphone

The Beths - Silence Is Golden

The Chats - 6L GTR

#Alvvays #The Lazy Eyes #Stella Donnelly #Angel Olsen #Weyes Blood #Kristine Leschper #Julia Jacklin #Katy J Pearson #Sophie May #Renata Zeiguer #La Femme #Natalia Lafourcade #Sharon Van Etten #Black Country #New Road #Soccer Mommy #Melody's Echo Chamber #black midi #Beach House #Cate Le Bon #Osees #King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard #Mitski #Big Thief #Tallies #Kendrick Lamar #Wet Leg #Arcade Fire #Otoboke Beaver #The Beths

[hunklet]

Constance - Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox

#Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox #Myths 004 #Cate Le Bon #Deerhunter #m #Bandcamp

[knightofleo]

Cate Le Bon | Harbour

Call it a war, you can do what you like Heavens above don't care how you're living Carry across your devotional ties Where do you run when you're like a child?

What you said was nice, when you said my face turned a memory What you said was nice, when you said my heart broke a century Harbour

Call it a life, you can call it a night Days linger on, quicker than a minute Bravery’s just an emotional bribe Into your arms, and I'm like a child

#songs of 2022 #cate le bon #pompeii #harbour #cate le bon harbour