Crab Day

by Cate Le Bon

Crab Day cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 April 2016
  • Label: Drag City
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 36:24
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 9 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Welsh singer-songwriter ventures into brilliantly eccentric, Dadaist art-pop on her fourth studio album. Recorded in the coastal town of Stinson Beach, California, the album embraces erratic, jagged guitar lines, surreal lyrical observations, and bouncy, disjointed rhythms reminiscent of early Devo or The Slits. It is a wildly imaginative, playfully dissonant record that solidified her status as a vital alternative auteur.

Genres

Descriptors: death, dissonant, bizarre, unconventional, eccentric, melodic, guitars, jangly, female-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Crab Day (3:49)
  2. Love Is Not Love (3:01)
  3. Wonderful (2:36)
  4. Find Me (2:51)
  5. I'm a Dirty Attic (3:06)
  6. I Was Born on the Wrong Day (2:17)
  7. We Might Revolve (3:47)
  8. Yellow Blinds, Cream Shadows (4:02)
  9. How Do You Know? (3:25)
  10. What's Not Mine (7:26)

Credits

  • Cate Le Bon - primary artist, guitar, marimba, percussion, piano, synth, written-by
  • Stephen Black - bass, clarinet, saxophone
  • Stella Mozgawa - drums
  • Huw Gwynfryn Evans - guitar, marimba, synth
  • Isabel Vollrath - other [kimono jacket]
  • Christian Fritzenwanker - other [make up by]
  • H. Hawkline - sleeve

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