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“Cruise Ship Designer sounded so weird, I would have been scared if you’d said it would ever become a single”: We speak to Dry Cleaning about the making of the Cate Le Bon-produced Secret Love

Post-punk indie futurists Dry Cleaning have set the bar high for 2026 albums with their masterful third album Secret Love. They tells us how they created it in cahoots with acclaimed producer Cate Le Bon…

MusicRadar

“The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album

Michelangelo Dying, which she says is more of an exorcism than an album, was nearly released without Cale performing on the track Ride, because she was too afraid to ask him

Louder

Pyres, Screams and Light: Here are the Best Albums of 2025

Join us for Euronews Culture's countdown to our favourite album of the year. How many have you heard?

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Dry Cleaning on making (sheer genius) music for 'oddballs'

South London’s Dry Cleaning have just written their best album so far by delving ever more into their own weirdness

Evening Standard

The story of Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is on the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, which is on sale now

Prog 165 also features Peter Hammill, John Lodge, Cardiacs, Gazpacho, Steve Morse, Solstice, Atomic Rooster, Crown Lands, The Utopia Strong, Barry Palmer, Cate Le Bon, Amorphis and loads more...

Louder

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, healing from heartbreak with Welsh musician Cate Le Bon, and a meeting of medieval aesthetics and contemporary gothic. Here's what's happening this week.

Euronews

Lena Dunham on Too Much and her long-awaited return to TV: ‘I stepped back from acting after my body was dissected’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Eight years on from ‘Girls’, the HBO comedy that made her name – and made her a lightning rod for criticism – Dunham is back with a 10-part romcom, ‘Too Much’. Ellie Harrison hears from the writer, along with her new lead stars Meg Stalter and Will…

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‘The breakup was like an amputation that saves you’: Cate Le Bon on healing from heartache and her heavy new album

After a long relationship ended painfully, the acclaimed singer-producer swapped the Californian desert for south Wales – and set to work on her most emotionally direct record yet. ‘It’s been discombobulating,’ she says

The Guardian - UK

Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko Jakszyk, We Lost The Sea, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!

Great new music you need to hear from Gwenno, Wytch Hazel, Rocking Horse Music Club, Schrodinger and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...

Louder

“What angle have we missed on this? Ah yeah, getting some other ****er to sing it!”: the 10 best Manics songs featuring a guest singer (and the odd bassist and guitarist)

From Cate Le Bon to Duff McKagan and Lucy Rose to Kevin Shields, the Welsh legends have often welcomed other artists into their songs. Here’s ten of their finest.

Louder

Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On review – a minimalist indiepop masterpiece

With Cate Le Bon as producer, the Chicago indie trio’s second album is a quantum leap, full of poignant restraint and lyrical clarity

The Guardian - UK

St. Vincent Announces New Album 'All Born Screaming' For April

St. Vincent's new album 'All Born Screaming' showcases a darker, introspective sound with guest appearances and self-production.

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“A pretty tight little wrecking crew”: St Vincent confirms that her new album will feature Dave Grohl, Cate Le Bon, Josh Freese, and classic analogue synths

She describes the new record as “post-plague pop” that sounds “urgent and psychotic”

MusicRadar

Wilco: Cousin review – a band rediscovering their experimental side

Jeff Tweedy and co’s 13th album bears a close family resemblance to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but with Cate Le Bon in the producer’s chair, it has an appealing wash of left-field weirdness and its lyrics express an older man’s anxieties

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Devendra Banhart: ‘A tattoo of bull’s horns almost piercing my nipples felt very inspiring’

The playful Venezuelan American singer answers your questions, taking in Marc Bolan, haircuts from Cate Le Bon, and his ‘bottomless pit of regret’

The Guardian - UK

H Hawkline: Milk for Flowers review – affecting depth and beauty

Produced by Cate Le Bon, the Welsh singer-songwriter’s fifth album, written in the wake of his mother’s death, is a slow-burning triumph

The Guardian - UK

The outsider’s outsider: John Cale by Cate Le Bon, Gruff Rhys and James Dean Bradfield

Before they take to the stage with Cale for his 80th birthday concert, the three reflect on how Wales’s greatest living musician subverted what it means to be a Welsh musician

Wales Online

Welsh Music Prize 2022: Who's on the shortlist and when is the winner announced?

There's a shortlist of 15 artists in the running for the coveted award

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Album reviews: Black Country New Road, Bastille, Cate Le Bon and Animal Collective

Experimental rockers BCNR close a breakthrough era with the departure of singer Isaac Wood; Bastille send us dancing into the future, while Cate Le Bon and Animal Collective are in a more introspective mood

France 24

Let’s Eat Grandma: synth-pop duo to release personal and candid album about friendship and loss

Known for kaleidoscopic synth-pop - or what they call "experimental sludge pop" - the duo behind Let’s Eat Grandma met when they were small children and have been making music together since their early teens. After two critically acclaimed albums, Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth are set to drop a…

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Cate Le Bon: Pompeii review – introspective isolation album

An almost entirely solo affair, the Welsh musician’s sixth album encapsulates feelings of lockdown with a nod to mid-70s Bowie

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