Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying (Exclusive Bone White Vinyl)

Its creation led by pure emotion, Cate Le Bon's seventh record, Michelangelo Dying, usurped the album she thought she was making. The product of all-consuming heartache, her feelings overrode her reluctance to write an album about love, and in the process became a kind of exorcism.

What emerges is a wonderfully iridescent attempt to photograph a wound before it closes up - but which in doing so, picks at it too. Musically, there is a continuation and expansion of a sound - a machine with a heart - that has taken shape over her last two records as Le Bon has increasingly taken control of the playing and producing herself. As guitars and saxophones are pushed through pedals and percussion and voices are fed through filters, an iridescent, green and silky sound emerges, with flashes of the artistic singularities of David Bowie, Nico, John McGeoch and Laurie Anderson surfacing and disappearing below the waterline throughout. What we're left with is an ever-changing, continuous entity, a kind of song cycle.

Exclusive BONE WHITE vinyl produced by Mexican Summer in 2025.

TRACKLISTING:

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