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The Welsh singer and her band were impeccable
For the past decade or so, the Welsh musician Cate Le Bon has gradually established herself as one of indie rock’s great idiosyncratic eccentrics. With each album—from the playful abandon of 2016’s Crab Day, to this year’s woozy and wheezing Pompeii — Le Bon has deviated into ever-stranger places, constructing a sound that is all her own; one which increasingly resists categorisation and sensible description. Writing about it feels like dancing about architecture.
It seems appropriate, then, that her audience last night at Hackney Empire (one of the biggest stops on her tour of the USA and Europe) were largely reduced to awe-stricken silence.
“I don’t really know what to say, so I’ll just keep saying ‘Thank you’,” she said to a near sold-out crowd half-way...