Album Info

Michelangelo Dying

Alternative - 2025

Cate Le Bon’s gently surrealistic art-pop has a way of conjuring scenes that feel both unreachably distant and archetypically close... more

Tracklist

1

Jerome

4:06 min
2

Love Unrehearsed

4:14 min
3

Mothers of Riches

4:34 min
4

Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?

5:47 min
5

Pieces of My Heart

3:39 min
6

About Time

3:30 min
7

Heaven Is No Feeling

3:48 min
8

Body as a River

4:30 min
9

Ride (feat. John Cale)

3:53 min
10

I Know What's Nice

5:20 min

About Michelangelo Dying

Cate Le Bon’s gently surrealistic art-pop has a way of conjuring scenes that feel both unreachably distant and archetypically close at the same time: a mirrored palace on a rocky outcropping, a cryptic ritual conducted by robed figures on a freezing beach—the kind of stuff you wake up from thinking, “It must mean something,” without quite knowing what. Michelangelo Dying forms a kind of triptych with 2019’s Reward and 2022’s Pompeii, channeling the dreamy stiffness of late-’70s Bowie (“Mothers of Riches,” “Body as a River”) and late-’80s Cocteau Twins (“Jerome”) into a sound that feels totally—and at this point, almost inescapably—her own. And should you wonder if an artist so heady and poised would deign to write a love song, there’s six aching minutes of “Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?”