Cate Le Bon - RewardIt was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bons fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. Theres a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night, she says, recounting the year living solitarily in the Lake District which gave way to Reward. By day, ever the polymath, Le Bon painstakingly learnt to make solid wood tables, stools and chairs from

quickly betrays their still quite heavy debt to doom metal forefathers like Black Sabbath

Shad also excelled in soul divas and produced Ellerine Harding

he grew up in an extended family that was both black and white

"What You Really Mean

in a great room

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the band have assembled a promiscuous array of examples of this sturdy-yet-ersatz family of materials: dominos

even twentieth-century avant-garde composition were all utilized

this set boasts the talents of Scientist on the desk

"Antifree"