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Album Review: Cate Le Bon - Crab Day

Mac McNaughton
StarStar

"Angular at its best, alienating at its worst, forgettable it is not."

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Perhaps we were being spoilt by Mug Museum, Cate Le Bon's now three-year-old third longplayer.

Rich in substance and character, it knitted cosy kookiness and soul baring with a pop sensibility, though perhaps was a little too safe for the Welsh singer's own liking. So Crab Day (inspired by her niece's surrealist reaction to the unkindness of April Fool's Day) goes off the deep end to make you feel off-kilter, landing Le Bon in an uncomfortably lost halfway house between Stereolab and Nico. Angular at its best, alienating at its worst, forgettable it is not.