I Want To Sing To Regret, I Just Can't Pay Its Debt

Cate Le Bon and five-piece band, performing for KEXP on 27th January.

The set features four songs from Cate's seventh album Michelangelo Dying, released four months previously in September 2025.

A timely reminder that I haven't bought the album or listened to it in its entirety yet, and these four songs only serve to demonstrate that I need to get my act together.

Joining Cate are 

Euan Hinshelwood (Emmy The Great, John Grant) on guitar and saxophone

Stephen Black (Sweet Baboo, Euros Childs) on guitar and synth

Paul Jones (Catatonia, Y Cyrff) on keyboards

Toko Yasuda (Enon, Blonde Redhead) on bass guitar

Dylan Hadley (White Fence, Cass McCombs) on drums

Elements of Durutti Column, Cocteau Twins, Martha & The Muffins, Pink Industry and yet the songs feel very much now and very much Cate Le Bon. Lovely to hear host Cheryl Walters' post-set catch up with Cate, too.

What a legend. 

1) About Time

2) Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?

3) Ride

4) Heaven Is No Feeling