Cate Le Bon has shared a new song called "Moderation" from her upcoming album, Pompeii, out February 4, 2022 on Mexican Summer. The track comes with an exquisitely moody music video directed by Juliana and Nicola Giraffe (of Giraffe Studios) and filmed through a famous window designed by Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi. It follows Pompeii's lead single, "Running Away" — a slower, murkier offering Le Bon dropped in October with its own intense visual accompaniment.
The Welsh singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist is auteurish on "Moderation" and elsewhere on Pompeii, her sixth studio album. She plays every instrument save for saxophone and drums. On the new track, her bass is the driver, with her chiming guitar and double-tracked, harmonizing vocal lines riding along. A simple drum beat keeps time while a sax soars above the mix.
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The lyrics reference a 1958 Bo Bardi essay and are, according to Le Bon, "a nod to the daily dilemma of trying to curb inherited and novel habits, when you want to eat the moon."
Watch the Giraffe sisters' "Moderation" video above, and view Cate Le Bon's 2022 international tour dates below. Tickets are available now on Le Bon's website.
Cate Le Bon 2022 Tour Dates
2/6 - Woodstock, NY - Colony
2/8 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
2/9 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
2/11 - Toronto, ON - Great Hall
2/14 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
2/16 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
2/17 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile
2/19 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
2/20 - San Luis Obispo, CA - The Rock / SLO Brew Music Hall
2/24 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
2/26 - Pioneertown, CA - Pappy’s
3/14 - Southampton, UK - Engine Rooms
3/15 - London, UK - Hackney Empire
3/16 - Manchester, UK - Albert Hall
3/17 - Glasgow, UK - Queen Margaret Union
3/18 - Belfast, IE - Empire Music Hall
3/19 - Dublin, IE - The National Concert Hall
3/21 - Liverpool, UK - Arts Club
3/22 - Leeds, UK - Irish Centre
3/23 - Birmingham, UK - The Mill
3/28 - Lille, FR - L’Aeronef
3/29 - Paris, FR - La Maroquinerie
3/31 - Lyon, FR - Epicerie Moderne
4/1 - Zurich, CH - Bogen F
4/2 - Schorndorf, DE - Manufaktur
4/3 - Leipzig, DE - UT Connewitz
4/5 - Berlin, DE - Frannz Club
4/6 - Hamburg, DE - Nochtspeicher
4/7 - Hus 7 / Slaktkyrkan - Stockholm, SE
4/8 - Oslo, NO - Parkteatre
4/9 - Copenhagen, DK - Small Vega
4/11 - Brussels, BE - AB Box
4/12 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
