aaamusic | On 30, Apr 2012

Photo by Angel Ceballos

So the reviews are in. The second album by singer-songwriter-with-a-difference Cate Le Bon, CYRK, is a bona fide critical hit! And it hits the shelves today (30th April 2012).

Released on Gruff Rhys’s Ovni imprint, CYRK is a 35-minute blast of colour, ever-changing as it whizzes from the garage pop opener Falcon Eyed to the closing number Ploughing Out, a track so epic it demanded to be split into two parts. “CYRK is like a time travel travelogue which continually returns the sea,” says Le Bon, who took the album’s title from the Polish word for Circus and too inspiration from a trip to the Isle Of Eigg. “I mostly write about the sea, matters of the heart and animals – or a mish-mash of all three.”

Also Tickets for Cate’s freshly booked September tour go on sale today (see dates below, including supporting dates w/ Perfume Genius and Brian Jonestown Massacre):

SUPPORTING PERFUME GENIUS IN MAY:

7th – The Lantern Theatre, Sheffield SOLD OUT
8th – Captain’s Rest, Glasgow SOLD OUT
9th – Deaf Institute, Manchester
10th – St Pancras Old Church, London SOLD OUT
13th – Chapel Arts, Bath
14th – St Pancras Old Church, London SOLD OUT
16th – Botanique, Brussels – Belgium SOLD OUT
17th – Amstelkerk, Amsterdam – Netherlands
19th – Paradijskerk, Rotterdam – Netherlands
20th – Gebaude 9, Cologne – Germany
21st – Prinzebar, Hamburg – Germany
22nd – PrivatClub, Berlin – Germany
24th – Divan Du Monde, Paris – France

SUPPORTING BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE IN JULY

7th – London, Shepherds Bush Empire
8th – Manchester, Ritz
9th – Birmingham, Academy 2

HEADLINE TOUR IN SEPTEMBER:

6th – Leaf, Liverpool
7th – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
8th – Captains Rest, Glasgow
10th – Cluny, Newcastle
11th – Telford’s Warehouse, Chester
12th – XOYO, London
13th – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
15th – The Parrot, Carmarthen

‘Puts Me To Work’ video: