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February 28th, 2012 - Hollywood

Cate Le Bon's new album Cyrk is out now from The Control Group. She visits Amoeba for a live set and to sign copies of Cyrk - available on CD and limited-edition numbered vinyl.

Playing live:
Feb. 27th – BARDOT HOLLYWOOD

"The earliest contender for album of the year 2012 is the next level second release from one of the most original new voices to emerge in years." - Chris Douridas, KCRW
 
"(Cate) filled her second effort with folk-pop gems that sound like they were recorded on the road during a Barnum and Bailey tour. And with her signature intricate melodies and moods that shift from gloomy to playful, you can bet she keeps us on our toes." - NYLON 

Free download
Free download of "Puts Me To Work" by Cate Le Bon.

A highly successful 2010 was spent touring her debut LP Me Oh My described by Word magazine: “As cymbals clash and keyboards whirl, imagine P J Harvey’s rawness tangling with Super Furry Animals’ prog and a vocalist who forgoes folk soft asides for delicious black humor." Cate then ended the year contemplating and conjuring up her sophomore release.
 
Cate Le Bon CyrkCate entered the studio with the nucleus of a record existing in her head, lyrical ideas swam in ether as did fully formed arrangements, but it wasn’t until she began recording that these disparate ideas were drawn together and her circus tent of a record rose from the gravel ground.
 
Drawing on her experiences from that heady 12 months, Cate created a collection of pop nuggets that sounded like they'd fallen off the back of a broken carousel, imbued with the playfulness of Faust, Syd Barrett and the tropical melodies of Os Mutantes and stitched together with a foreboding silken lyrical thread.

Existential word play abounds and fuzz fused guitar lines tear through like an angry bee in a CAN as Cate muses on matters of the heart and the magnetic pull of the ocean:

How would you describe the album, CYRK?
Cut a remote island in two and place one half to your ear
 
 What’s a song on your new album, CYRK, you really want people to hear, and why?
“The Man I Wanted” because I have finally put down a wooden recorder track that I have not been ridiculed for… as of yet. Also, if you’re listening to it, you’re well into side 2 of the album which means there’s hope you’ll make it to the end.

What’s a lyric you’re particularly proud of on the album?
“On the worst day of his life, he’d still love more things than I like” has been misconstrued as being a melancholic lyric about how miserable I am when actually it was written as a testament to how wonderful and positive the ‘he’ in the song is (its not God, for the record).


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