Cate Le Bon - Reward
Sequestered in the Cumbrian mountainside, surrounded by nothing but the rural environs of Lake District and the wood furniture she started to make, the first glimmers of Cate Le Bon’s fifth studio album “Reward” started to take root. And to listen to the record is to understand exactly how a year living in solitude, “playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night” translates into music, for while “Reward” is every bit as stylistically varied, surrealistically inclined and tactile as those in the enduring outsider’s back catalogue, it is also the most intensely introspective and profoundly personal to date.