Release Date 4th February
Pompeii, Cate Le Bons sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019s Mercury-nominated Reward, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any dissection of immediacy, says Le Bon. Not to downplay her nod to disorientation induced by double catastrophe global pandemic plus climate emergencys colliding eco-traumas resonate all too eerily. What would be your last gesture? she asks. But just as Vesuvius remains active, Pompeii reaches past the current crises to tap into what Le Bon calls an economy of time warp where life roils, bubbles, wrinkles, melts, hardens, and reconfigures unpredictably, like lavaor sound,