{"product_id":"reward","title":"Reward","description":"\u003cp\u003eugh Trade Albums of the Year 2019 No. 7 \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee also Albums of the Year Exclusive EP \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtrade.com\/gb\/cate-le-bon\/here-it-comes-again\"\u003eHere It Comes Again\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon’s fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. “There’s a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night,” she says, recounting the year living solitarily in the Lake District which gave way to Reward. By day, ever the polymath, Le Bon painstakingly learnt to make solid wood tables, stools and chairs from scratch; by night she looked to a second-hand Meers — the first piano she had ever owned — for company, “windows closed to absolutely everyone”, and accidentally poured her heart out. The result is an album every bit as stylistically varied, surrealistically-inclined and tactile as those in the enduring outsider’s back catalogue, but one that is also intensely introspective and profound; her most personal to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sense of privacy maintained throughout is helped by the various landscapes within which \u003ci\u003eReward\u003c\/i\u003e took shape: Stinson Beach, LA, and Brooklyn via Cardiff and The Lakes. Recording at Panoramic House [Stinson Beach, CA], a residential studio on a mountain overlooking the ocean, afforded Le Bon the ability to preserve the remoteness she had captured during the writing of \u003ci\u003eReward\u003c\/i\u003e in Staveley, Lake District.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver this extended period a cast of trusted and loved musicians joined Le Bon, Khouja and fellow co-producer Josiah Steinbrick — Stella Mozgawa (of Warpaint) on drums and percussion; Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) on bass and saxophone and longtime collaborators Huw Evans (aka H.Hawkline) and Josh Klinghoffer on guitars — and were added to the album, “one by one, one on one”. The fact that these collaborators have appeared variously on Le Bon’s previous outputs no doubt goes some way to aid the preservation of a signature sound despite a relatively drastic change in approach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50461324345675,"sku":"1060501","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50461322084683,"sku":"1060500","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50461323329867,"sku":"1060499","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6fd613e2-f002-4f42-baaa-c2a28e7088b6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727246881","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/reward","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}