It was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon’s fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. “There’s a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night,” she says, recounting the year living solitarily in the Lake District which gave way to Reward.
By day, ever the polymath, Le Bon painstakingly learnt to make solid wood tables, stools and chairs from scratch; by night she looked to a second-hand Meers — the first piano she had ever owned — for company, “windows closed to absolutely everyone”, and accidentally poured her heart out. The result is an album every bit as stylistically varied, surrealistically-inclined and tactile as those in the enduring outsider’s back catalogue, but one that is also intensely introspective and profound; her most personal to date.
Yeah sounds good right? Well…we’ve got 2 double passes to giveaway to her show at the Rosemount Hotel on Monday, December 9.
To WIN simply email us here at win@xpressmag.com.au with CATE LE BON in the subject line and tag the mate you’ll take in the Facebook post. Don’t forget to like the X-Press Facebook page and sign up to the newsletter to be in the running!
Competition closes Sunday, December 8 at 12pm. You must be a Perth, WA resident and be able to attend Rosemount Hotel on Monday, December 9.
