Pompeii is the hypnotic and pop-tinged sixth, full-length studio album from Cate Le Bon.

Pompeii is the excellent followup to 2019’s Mercury-nominated Reward and finds Le Bon playing every instrument (except drums and saxophones). Very much a product of lockdown, it was recorded largely by herself with long-term collaborator and co-producer Samur Khouja in Cardiff, Wales. 



"Everything sounds like it’s melting. The bass. The horns. The keyboards especially. It’s destabilising, intriguing, invigorating. It sounds like the artiest, most idiosyncratic new wave hits of the 1980s reflected back in a funhouse mirror. It sounds like going through the looking glass. And it has never sounded better than it does on Pompeii." - Stereogum

The songs of Pompeii feel suspended in time, both of the moment and instant but reactionary and Dada-esque in their insistence to be playful, satirical and surreal. 





"I thought: I could be dead by the end of this" -  Cate Le Bon on making art from Covid chaos, a conversation for The Guardian with Laura Barton. [Read More]

A singular writer, Cate Le Bon is in such graceful and hugely inventive form on Pompeii, an album as complex and engaging as any of the excellent work she's released before it.

+ The Indie Record Shop edition of the LP is pressed on translucent yellow sun vinyl. It is very limited.