Pompeii

by Cate Le Bon

Pompeii cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 February 2022
  • Label: Mexican Summer
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 43:21
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Written entirely on bass guitar during pandemic isolation, the Welsh artist's sixth album is a surreal, meticulously constructed exercise in 1980s art-pop. The heavily synthesized, angular arrangements feature prominent saxophone lines and fretless bass, providing a cold but melodic backdrop for her deeply cryptic lyrical poetry.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, eccentric, minimal, sophisticated, bizarre

Tracklist

  1. Dirt on the Bed (4:28)
  2. Moderation (4:04)
  3. French Boys (5:14)
  4. Pompeii (4:35)
  5. Harbour (4:08)
  6. Running Away (5:43)
  7. Cry Me Old Trouble (5:04)
  8. Remembering Me (4:34)
  9. Wheel (5:28)

Credits

  • Cate Le Bon - primary artist, written-by, arranged by, producer
  • Heba Kadry - mastered by
  • Samur Khouja - producer

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