Cate Le Bon - 'Typical Love'

Welsh songstress Cate Le Bon returns with her woozily hypnotic new standalone single ‘Typical Love’.
Following this year’s release of Pompeii, Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon has come out with her newest single and the album’s “second cousin” titled ‘Typical Love’. The percussion heavy tune came about during one of the sessions for Pompeii (2022) with drummer Stella Mozgawa, but was ultimately cast aside for later. The accompanying video, co-directed by Phil Collins and Stefan Ramirez Perez, has an incredible use of lighting and shadows which portrays Le Bon in her unique yet recognizable style.
The song expresses the various anomalies of love, from “an invite to a demolition” to “a river that goes on and on,” until eventually leading into the repetitive outro of that insists love’s archetypal nature. Le Bon explains that the track has been “disassembled and reassembled many times,” which is exactly what it sounds like; in the best way possible you can hear each layer distinctly, creating a sonic representation of what it feels like to look back on a relationship. All the aspects that pile on top of one another to create the typical outcome – “only a shadow again” – which are so distinct in hindsight but as a collective impossible to distinguish.
Over the next month, Le Bon is set to play shows across the United States before returning for a few more in Europe and concluding at the Roundhouse in London. With artists such as Jeff Tweedy praising her as “one of the best out there making music now,” it becomes nearly impossible to not look forward to what she may come up with next.
Words by Frances Cameron
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