While her peers would spend an album weaving in and out of proverbial rabbit holes, Le Bon’s kaleidoscope is firmly focused.
On ... Cyrk, Le Bon shows a promising step in a more challenging sound, one that lands — finally — on the right side of freak folk.
A common thread can be found in ‘CYRK’, Cate’s second album: the application of a sincere pop-song sensibility, and a yen for the surreal that sidesteps the zany.
Evoking the ramshackle psychedelia of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Cryk nonetheless shows Le Bon following her own path.
CYRK still feels like one of those rare records that serves as an honest detour from the mores of ‘everything.’
As it progresses, CYRK loses some of its musical and descriptive vitality, but Le Bon lingers over these physical depictions, lending her songs a beguiling tactility as well as a strong gravity.
Pretty but not boring, eclectic but not overindulgent, Cyrk is the work of an artist still messing with all the possibilities in front of her.
Much of the album’s strength lies in its subtle simplicity.
Her haunting, Welsh-infused vocals stand as the driving force behind an album of mixed traits, mingling the familiar gloom with experimental pop.
Favourite tracks: Puts Me To Work, Fold The Cloth, Ploughing Out Pt. 1, Ploughing Out Pt. 2
1 | Falcon Eyed 2:48 | |
2 | Puts Me to Work 3:27 | |
3 | Cyrk 3:05 | |
4 | Julia 3:23 | |
5 | Greta 3:36 | |
6 | Fold the Cloth 5:39 | |
7 | The Man I Wanted 3:08 | |
8 | Through the Mill 3:07 | |
9 | Ploughing Out, Pt. 1 3:52 | |
10 | Ploughing Out, Pt. 2 2:59 |
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