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Originally from Wales, avant-pop artist Cate Le Bon has made her new home in Joshua Tree National Park, in southern California. Lured by the surreal cactus-dotted landscape last year, Le Bon relocated to the desert after finishing her sixth solo album Pompeii.
Le Bon wrote the record in the uncertain atmosphere of the unfolding pandemic, finding herself stuck in her hometown of Cardiff, after traveling to Iceland to produce an album for friend and fellow musician John Grant.
As a result Pompeii has been described as “a disorienting record, one wholly appropriate for our time”.
