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10.0
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10.0 |
Mojo
It's a beauty. Print edition only
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9.0
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9.0 |
musicOMH
Heartbreak is rarely as raw or bittersweet as it is on this brave, cathartic and uplifting piece of work
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9.0
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Rolling Stone
One of the most original artists in indie music comes up with something opaquely alluring and genuinely moving
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8.3
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8.3 |
Spectrum Culture
Love and its subsequent loss are always fertile ground for art, but on Michelangelo Dying, Cate Le Bon manages to make it sound both mysterious and fresh
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8.2
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Paste Magazine
Murky synthesizers and sweeping saxophones landscape her neo-psychedelic, modernist universe, and her voice gets closer to the listener than ever before
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8.1
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Pitchfork
The Welsh musician composed her seventh album in the wake of fresh heartbreak. In songs that pair ornate arrangements and billowing melodies, she conjures mystery and surrenders to her own experience
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8.0
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8.0 |
Far Out
It may soon be time for another change-up in Le Bon’s sound, seeing as her past three albums all possess similar qualities, but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. Le Bon has established herself as one of the finest in her field, and wherever she endeavours to go next will undoubtedly be fascinating
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8.0
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Uncut
Quite mesmeric. Print edition only
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8.0
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Record Collector
Michelangelo Dying, her seventh, is her most refined accomplishment yet. Print edition only
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8.0
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PopMatters
As Cate Le Bon navigates difficult emotional states, it may seem like the road was a challenging one to traverse, but it has resulted in some of her best work
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8.0
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All Music
Michelangelo Dying is dense and mysterious, sometimes in ways that are obtuse to a difficult degree and sometimes exhibiting such vulnerable tenderness it’s shocking
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8.0
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The Quietus
The album unfolds at its own unhurried pace. Initially, it can feel almost vaporous, but its textural richness rewards patience; with each listen, new layers emerge, like light shifting through water at different times of day
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8.0
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Exclaim
In constructing such an ornate snarl of emotion and eloquence, Le Bon has effectively created in Michelangelo Dying a bummer album that doesn't actually require any wallowing to digest
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8.0
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Clash
A work of art born of personal pain
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7.5
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7.5 |
Northern Transmissions
This isn’t the Cate Le Bon of playful abstraction. This is Cate staring at the wound, photographing it under UV light, letting it pulse on the club wall
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