ウェールズ出身のシンガーソングライター、Cate Le Bon(ケイト・ル・ボン)。2007年にスーパー・ファーリー・アニマルズのグリフ・リースのUKツアーのサポートを行い注目を浴びる。その後、Glastonbury、Latitude、Green Man Festivalといったフェスティヴァルでもプレイ。またネオン・ネオンのシングル“I Lust U”でもゲスト・ヴォーカルを務めている。2008年にEP“Edrych yn Llygaid Ceffyl Benthyg”を、2009年にはデビュー・アルバム“Me Oh My”をリリース。今作“CMYK”は待望のセカンド・アルバムとなる。アルバムは既に大きな注目を浴びており、Q誌のレヴューで4/5点、MOJO誌でも4/5点と高評価を獲得している。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2012/06/11）

CMJ - "Filled with high-energy strumming, drumming and recorder playing, the music on Cate Le Bon's second album, CYRK, is a perfect fit for her deep, soulful, Nico-esque voice." Paste - "Le Bon emphasizes the physical in both her lyrics and her music. Her voice is beautifully off-kilter and off-key, with a thick phrasing that has rightfully earned her comparisons to Nico." Pitchfork - "[The album] sees Le Bon and her four-piece band developing into a crack psych-rock outfit that consistently leads the songs into unexpected places..." Mojo - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Quite beautiful when you let it hover in your peripheral vision..." Q - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'Fold The Cloth' brings to mind the unhinged melodies of Julian Cope's 'Fried'....[A] gentle psychedelia that flows through the record..." Uncut - "Le Bon's compelling duality is best exemplified on 'Ploughing Out', which begins as a sweet music-box tinkle and ends in free-form cacophony."

Rovi

The sophomore outing from Welsh singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon pairs the spooky timbre of Nico and the meandering psych rock affectations of Syd Barrett with the experimental Nuggets-meets-Krautrock attack of Faust and Os Mutantes. Jangly retro-pop gems like "Puts Me to Work," "Falcon Eyed," and "Fold the Cloth," the latter of which sounds like a lost early-'90s Stereolab classic, keep things moving along at a brisk pace, while more exploratory pieces such as "Ploughing Out" and the neatly fractured title cut give listeners a little more to chew on. While each track on Cyrk brings to mind somebody else (Velvet Underground, "Genesis Hall"-era Fairport Convention, Comus, Spacemen 3), Le Bon somehow manages to make it all feel surprising natural, allowing the oddness of the songs, all of which are built upon the foundation of a simple, melodic hook, then allowed enough pasture to graze indefinitely, to evolve in a way that never seems contrived, despite their obvious influences. ~ James Christopher Monger|

Rovi

The sophomore outing from Welsh singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon pairs the spooky timbre of Nico and the meandering psych rock affectations of Syd Barrett with the experimental Nuggets-meets-Krautrock attack of Faust and Os Mutantes. Jangly retro-pop gems like "Puts Me to Work," "Falcon Eyed," and "Fold the Cloth," the latter of which sounds like a lost early-'90s Stereolab classic, keep things moving along at a brisk pace, while more exploratory pieces such as "Ploughing Out" and the neatly fractured title cut give listeners a little more to chew on. While each track on Cyrk brings to mind somebody else (Velvet Underground, "Genesis Hall"-era Fairport Convention, Comus, Spacemen 3), Le Bon somehow manages to make it all feel surprising natural, allowing the oddness of the songs, all of which are built upon the foundation of a simple, melodic hook, then allowed enough pasture to graze indefinitely, to evolve in a way that never seems contrived, despite their obvious influences. ~ James Christopher Monger

Rovi