With a booked schedule leading into next year, Cate Le Bon is getting ready for her new album, Michelangelo Dying, out Sept. 26 via Mexican Summer, with her lead single, “Heaven Is No Feeling.” While the Welsh multi-hyphenate is no stranger to keeping busy – particularly in the production sphere where she worked on Wilco and Devendra Banhart’s most recent albums – the first taste of Michelangelo Dying is expectedly avant-garde, albeit fuelled by fresh emotional wounds that Le Bon delivers with crystal clear honesty.
Following Le Bon asking “What does she want?” at the start, the healthy dose of reverb on the instruments makes “Heaven Is No Feeling” a dreamy daze befitting of her psychedelic style. The production, done by Le Bon alongside longtime collaborator Samur Khouja, lets the atmosphere dictate the track’s driving force, where the watery guitar, synths, and saxophone mount up to the angelic vocals.
However, unsurprisingly, it’s the lyrics that cut deep in a way that creeps up on you before washing over you like the instrumental. Le Bon’s songwriting reaches several high points in just one song, with highlights including “Don’t you want more love than you’ve ever drеamed of? / I don’t wanna change” and “I see you watch me, watch you, watch me move away.”
If anything, those lyrics stun for how honest they come across. And like previous albums and likely the rest of Michelangelo Dying, Le Bon has proven she knows how to pair show-stopping production with equally compelling songwriting.
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Listen to “Heaven Is No Feeling” the new single from Cate Le Bon below!
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