Released: 04/02/22
Pompeii, Cate Le Bon’s sixth album and follow-up to her Mercury-nominated Reward, explores disorientation and transformation amid global crisis, using the volcanic metaphor not as doom but as reinvention. Written mostly on bass and recorded in isolation in Cardiff with co-producer Samur Khouja, Le Bon played nearly every instrument herself. The album blends sonic minimalism with lyrical introspection, blurring irony and vulnerability as she pushes her creative identity to its limits in a surreal, time-warped soundscape.