Cate Le Bon Shares Video for Final Pompeii Single, “Remembering Me”
Photo by Cate Le Bon
Ahead of her sixth studio album, Welsh singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon has shared “Remembering Me,” our final preview of Pompeii before its Feb. 4 release on Mexican Summer. It’s the third single from Le Bon’s Reward follow-up after “Moderation” and “Running Away.”
In a statement, Le Bon describes “Remembering Me” as “a neurotic diary entry that questions notions of legacy and warped sentimentalism in the desperate need to self-mythologise.”
Her vocals float over fluttering synths and a hypnotic mixture of electric and acoustic guitars as she evokes the human predisposition to delusion—the stories we tell ourselves to feel larger than life. “Louder than empty rooms / Face down in heirlooms,” Le Bon sings over longtime collaborator Stella Mozgawa’s drums, her self-image’s shadow lengthening with each word while the instrumentation around her distorts like a Dali painting.
Le Bon is front and center in the “Remembering Me” video (dir. Juliana Giraffe and Niccola Giraffe of Giraffe Studios), her colorful costuming (by Monica Adriana Rowlands) standing out against stark black and white backgrounds. The visuals echo Le Bon’s lyrics, purposefully presenting her singing and swaying figure so that it jumps off the screen.
Le Bon wrote her new album primarily on the bass, of all instruments—she plays everything except drums and saxophone on the album, which she recorded mostly by herself—with an assist from another longtime collaborator, co-producer Samur Khouja—in Cardiff, Wales.