Cate Le Bon Announces New Album Pompeii, Shares Video for New Song: Watch

Cate Le Bon has announced her next record and shared its first single. Her sixth album is titled Pompeii and it’s out February 4 via Mexican Summer. The single is “Running Away,” and it comes with a music video directed by Casey Raymond and recorded in the Factory in Porth, Wales. Check out the visual, as well as Le Bon’s upcoming tour dates, below.

“Pompeii was written and recorded in a quagmire of unease. Solo. In a time warp. In a house I had a life in 15 years ago,” Cate Le Bon said in a statement. “I grappled with existence, resignation and faith. I felt culpable for the mess but it smacked hard of the collective guilt imposed by religion and original sin.”

Le Bon continued:

The subtitle is: You will be forever connected to everything. Which, depending on the time of day, is as comforting as it is terrifying. The sense of finality has always been here. It seems strangely hopeful. Someone is playing with the focus lens. The world is on fire but the bins must go out on a Tuesday night. Political dissonance meets beauty regimes. I put a groove behind it for something to hold on to. The grief is in the saxophones.

Cate Le Bon released her fifth solo full-length Reward in 2019. Read more about Reward in Pitchfork’s “The 50 Best Albums of 2019.”

Pompeii:

01 Dirt on the Bed
02 Moderation
03 French Boys
04 Pompeii
05 Harbour
06 Running Away
07 Cry Me Old Trouble
08 Remembering Me
09 Wheel

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Cate Le Bon:

02-06 Woodstock, NY - Colony
02-08 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
02-09 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
02-11 Toronto, Ontario - The Great Hall
02-14 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
02-16 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
02-17 Seattle, WA - Crocodile
02-20 San Luis Obispo, CA - The SLO Brew Rock Event Center
02-24 Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
02-26 Pioneertown, CA - Pappy and Harriet’s
03-14 Southampton, England - Engine Rooms
03-15 London, England - Hackney Empire
03-16 Manchester, England - Albert Hall
03-17 Glasgow, Scotland - SWG3 TV Studio
03-18 Belfast, Ireland - Empire Music Hall
03-19 Dublin, Ireland - The National Concert Hall
03-21 Liverpool, England - Arts Club
03-22 Leeds, England - Irish Centre
03-23 Birmingham, England - The Mill
03-28 Lille, France - L’Aeronef
03-29 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
03-31 Lyon, France - Epicerie Moderne
04-01 Zurich, Switzerland - Bogen F
04-02 Schorndorf, Germany - Manufaktur
04-03 Leipzig, Germany - UT Connewitz
04-05 Berlin, Germany - Frannz Club
04-06 Hamburg, Germany - Nochtspeicher
04-07 Stockholm, Sweden - Hus 7 / Slaktkyrkan
04-08 Oslo, Norway - Parkteatre
04-09 Copenhagen, Denmark - Small Vega
04-11 Brussels, Belgium - AB Box
04-12 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso

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