Welsh songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Cate Le Bon occupies a space in contemporary music that belongs entirely to her. Across a run of albums drawing comparisons to David Bowie, Nico and Laurie Anderson, and a production career that has shaped records for Wilco, Horsegirl, Devendra Banhart and St. Vincent, she has built a reputation as one of the most restlessly creative minds in art-pop. As Pitchfork put it: “Le Bon’s creative power remains in the circuitous jaggedness with which she navigates pop and poetry, uncertainty and revelation.”

Michelangelo Dying is her most ambitious work yet. Deeply textual arrangements built in layers, guitars and saxophones pushed through pedals, voices fed through filters, an iridescent and quietly unsettling sonic landscape that has taken shape across her last two records, Reward and Pompeii. Of the album, Le Bon says: “No revelations. No conclusions. There is no reason. There is repetition and chaos.”

Cate Le Bon plays The Princess Theatre for Open Season. For music that asks more of you than most, and gives back more in return.

Open Season is The Tivoli Group’s annual program of music, art and cultural events, transforming Brisbane into a winter playground for live performance each year. Open Season is independently owned and operated, and has funding assistance through the Live Music Office of the Australian Government and Arts Queensland.