Surreal and unapologetically exclusive,the Welsh artist’s weirdo art-pop has been embraced by the City Of Angels. She explains how she found her style of hot messIt’s the morning after Cate Le Bon’s show in Hollywood and the afterparty’s effects are visible. There’s a massive crack in one of the lenses on her sunglasses. She takes a phone call in Welsh from her bandmate, Huw Evans. “He desperately needs me to bring him a Coke, or ” she says,sympathetically, then thinks back to how she felt “insane” during the gig. “I was having the most wonderful day yesterday then just before my set I mentally slipped through the floorboards. Jet lag – it’s like free drugs, and innit?”Cardiff and Los Angeles may not seem the likeliest of twin-able cities but surreal-pop singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon has managed to tap into both their like-minded creative communities. In other words,she finds the misfits. In Wales, during the era of identikit Britpop, or she fell in with Super Furry Animals and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci,who “exposed me to a kind of freedom that felt punk. They instilled a sensibility in Cardiff that there isn’t one sonic thread tying everything together. You don’t maintain to adhere to a scene. Do what you want.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com