Cate Le Bon

West Wales' ghoulishly alluring voice steps forth. - Mojo

You'd think that starting your first bigtime public excursion playing keytars on '80s disco numbers about DeLorean cars - as Cate Le Bon did with Gruff Rhys's Neon Neon last year - would see her pigeon-holed. But now the Cardiff folkstress is ready to stand on her own two dainty feet......

“Her odd, beautiful songs burrow like furtive woodland creatures to a safe nest lodged firmly between tradition and individual talent. Quirky psychedelia, rough guitars and spectral shanties are drawn together by her cool, Welsh Nico vocal… Cate Le Bon is very much her own thing.” - NME

“Quirky and confident; mindful of tradition without getting bogged down in issues of authenticity, it’s worth keeping an eye on Le Bon.” - UNCUT

“Just when you think there is nothing to be added to that girl/guitar/splash of electronica formula, along comes someone you’ve never heard of to make you think again… Spellbinding.” - Independent on Sunday

“a happy marriage between lustrous melody and off-kilter psych folk that’s ballasted with a glowering Welsh lyricism” - Observer Music Monthly

“Her dark, homespun, starkly realised lullabies cast their own distinctly witchy spell - Q Magazine

“Me Oh My, with its lilting chords and curveball electro section, echoes a coarser Cat Power with added punch... One of the most exciting singer songwriters the UK is currently lucky enough to have.”
- Loud and Quiet

“Cate Le Bon is a sort of a freak folk version of St. Vincent, with the same air of unpredictability that makes Annie Clark’s music so hair-raising… On her marvellous debut album she comes across as alternately bookish and spooky… songs at once as old as the hills and utterly original. - Sunday Times

“Magnificent… Cate Le Bon has made a haunted forest of a record here, which with any justice will see her name lit up in neon (neon) lights before the year is out.”
- Artrocker