Michelangelo Dying is a Rock album by Cate Le Bon, originally released in 2025. On Gatefold: 5 pressings tracked.
About
Cate Le Bon’s gently surrealistic art-pop has a way of conjuring scenes that feel both unreachably distant and archetypically close at the same time: a mirrored palace on a rocky outcropping, a cryptic ritual conducted by robed figures on a freezing beach—the kind of stuff you wake up from thinking, “It must mean something,” without quite knowing what. <i>Michelangelo Dying</i> forms a kind of triptych with 2019’s <i>Reward</i> and 2022’s <i>Pompeii</i>, channeling the dreamy stiffness of late-’70s Bowie (“Mothers of Riches,” “Body as a River”) and late-’80s Cocteau Twins (“Jerome”) into a sound that feels totally—and at this point, almost inescapably—her own. And should you wonder if an artist so heady and poised would deign to write a love song, there’s six aching minutes of “Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?”
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1Jerome4:06
- 2Love Unrehearsed4:14
- 3Mothers of Riches4:34
- 4Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?5:47
- 5Pieces of My Heart3:39
- 6About Time3:30
- 7Heaven Is No Feeling3:48
- 8Body as a River4:30
- 9Ride (feat. John Cale)3:53
- 10I Know What's Nice5:20
Sound DNA
- Rock
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Galaxy pink vinyl, with full-color printed inner sleeve, & download code.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Cate Le BonSYNTH, BASS, VOCALS SYNTH, GUITAR, BASS, PERCUSSION, VOCALS SYNTH, GUITAR, BASS, PIANO, VOCALS
- Dylan HadleyDRUMS
- Euan HinshelwoodSAXOPHONE
- John CaleFEATURING, VOCALS
- Paul JonesPIANO SYNTH
- Valentina MagalettiDRUMS, PERCUSSION PERCUSSION
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 5 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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