Album reviews: A return to Cardiff produces some entertaining alternative pop

Welsh singer Cate Le Bon’s sixth album is melodic enough to keep you listening

Cate Le Bon: ‘Bobbie Gentry and Nico fighting over a Casio keyboard and melody winning’. Picture: Ivana Klikovi

ALTERNATIVE/POP; Cate Le Bon; Pompeii (Mexican Summer)

Reference points can be either facetious or spot on, but describing Cate Le Bon (as fellow Welsh native Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals once did) as “Bobbie Gentry and Nico fighting over a Casio keyboard and melody winning” is as close as you could get to evoking her sometimes victorious achievements. Because of the pandemic, however, Le Bon’s sixth album has travelled from the Mojave Desert to ...