Cate Le Bon: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

[@twelfthself]

not a siiiingle soul doing it like her--an all time favorite, forever

[@thismessismine]

Mug Museum is the most underrated album I can think of in recent history

[@MashPotatoJohns]

+Kayleigh Saum Check out Homeshake

[@thismessismine]

+Christian Lee I have actually seen Homeshake live and met a few of the band members! I like them.

[@fax_machine81]

+Kayleigh Saum it's the best album i have heard in the last 5 years

[@seeonedoone]

I couldn't agree more. I came back here to check if she had gained some momentum, but still nothing! Mug Museum is one of my favorite albums.

[@theperfectimperfect]

have y'all heard of Hiatus Kaiyote? amazing neo-soul from my homeland of Australia?

[@frederickgunther6609]

this is one of my all time favorite Tiny Desk's. y'all should press this to vinyl

[@davidfewtrell3479]

"Discovered" her just yesterday and to say I'm a bit obsessed is an understatement. Amazing.

[@friendship6668]

Wait til you see her live. Its an experience ! One of my fav concerts for sure. Can't wait to see her live again. Im obsessed too. (Make sure you check out Aldous Harding too!)

[@allisonandrews4719]

The way people just go about making art (broadly), indifferent to end-of-times-malaise, keeps me going. Not to be weird. Glad you found her. I ran into her randomly too.

[@davidfewtrell3479]

@@allisonandrews4719 Can't wait to see her in a couple of months (Covid not withstanding)

[@Rubberfooted]

Are you with me now is probably one of my favorite songs ever. Cate is a gem.

[@peterlansdale2965]

I like that they're jamming in their sweaters. Looks cozy.

[@festersuncle6298]

A voice as old as the hills, but as new as the sandwich I'm about to eat. Lovely. Just as beautiful live too.

[@g.g.6362]

Unique,beautiful,original,authentic,Welsh and wonderful......

[@contemplativeleaf]

She's too cool. i'm feeling velvet underground vibes for sure.

[@Oske.images]

Agreed.

[@andydouge8932]

Niko Jr.

[@roy_for_real2674]

yeah, but she has her own swing to it for sure

[@Colafarr]

Check out Nico's solo album "chelsea girl" if you have not done so yet!

[@fingerbob74]

Totally, Nico 3000!

[@wonkylommiter6364]

This performance of Duke is so fantastic, Cate is so awesome.

[@lordfarquad420]

love the television reference, that was the first thing I thought when I listened to her album, it's like a mix between stereolab, television, and blondie but with that said she is still extremely original and hard to draw comparisons to

[@EisforEvil]

+lordfarquad420 What particular album are you referring to? Her deadpan voice also gives her a Nico vibe.

[@MatthewFraser1]

@@EisforEvil There's a stong John Cale vibe too. Not just saying that because they're Welsh.

[@JohnAnderson4242]

2019 just got with it now. Made for Tiny Desk and not a thing a miss.

[@friendship6668]

Ugh. She's amazing. So effortless

[@sucktones]

Album of 2014 for me. She's in a different league!

[@jamesstratton5349]

At Greenman festival tomorrow and just discovered Cate - i'm hooked, stunning voice, great guitar playing and compelling songs. Can't wait :-)

[@ThunderCatsAreGo01]

She killed it at Greenman! her and Sweet Baboo, cracking!

[@TheCalliopeSky]

I watched a ton of Tiny Desk Concerts, and finally, I found one I like...

[@WGBHMusic]

Great to see Cate Le Bon on the Tiny Desk! We hope to catch up with her in Boston at some point. Beautiful songs. Nice work!

[@wonkylommiter6364]

Cate Le Bon's voice is the most amazing musical instrument I have ever heard.

[@timetobenotdo]

Emulating Nico

[@malco49]

i am late to the cate le bon party but i have a pretty strong feeling i will be sticking around.

[@Choopytrags]

She has an odd Syd Barrett's solo albums and Nico & The Velvet Underground style to her. I fucking love it.

[@MagChinaski]

Really love this woman... she's so talented !

[@confessionsofanenglishlopi5292]

I needed something creative and original to listen to, so I just clicked by chance. My God I'm glad I did, I just adore her style. Time to check her album out. Thanks for this.

[@kralle-uw9mc]

bliss. i have to say that the rhythm section adds a lot to all of the songs on album and live. i enjoy and like both versions.

[@michaelkamensky6230]

Everything about "Duke" -- from the lyrics to the melody to the guitar parts to the general off-kilter feeling to all of them -- reminds me strongly of Stephen Malkmus.

[@leahuldan]

i love her so much :,( the first song makes me cry tears of joy watching her sing it. thanks for this NPR

[@TheMonolake]

Best example of voice being instrument..wow!

[@wonkylommiter6364]

This live version of Duke is so unbelievably awesome, yet Cate looks like she is hardly trying. truly amazing!

[@sashwap]

she's so cool and talented for sure

[@nigelhanmore2784]

What a gorgeous woman.At the second high "OOoohhh" on the first track she almost starts laughing but manages to control herself! She's playing in Portsmouth (unfortunately not 'til September) and i will definitely be going.I only heard of her 10 minutes ago,but you just know when someone's good!!!

[@IanGustafson508]

I got the impression she was grinning at her sideman for hitting the even higher falsetto backing vocal :)

[@QuicoReed]

Ian Gustafson that was mine as well

[@michaelharrison3213]

First class knitwear.

[@phylypgriffiths1622]

Her phrasing is captivating - caru ti Cate

[@otterbot]

Excellent versions. Thank you very much!

[@mariogaleano9365]

cate and her voice and words are beautiful

[@StuartSeaton]

Cate le Bon is super amazing

[@felipesigne901]

i don't want to sound overly familiar but i love when she smiles too. The songs are great and the performance wonderful, of course.

[@amgauctions29musicgearandm31]

Pure generative creative vibrating souls Celebrate this important event. 🎉

[@garyives1218]

The combination of the vocals and the clean electric guitar tone is intoxicating. For me there's very little music as pleasing. In around 40 years of appreciating music I don't recall accumulating so much from a musician/ group in such a short time; Mug Museum, Me Oh My, Cyrk, Crab Day, and from her Tim Presley collaboration Drinks; Hippo Lite and Hermits on Holiday.

[@rbaleksandar]

Very relaxing. Beautiful. Thanks for the tiny desk concert. Amazing as usual. ;)

[@myempathy1]

So much right about that last song!

[@MzKlara]

Thanks Bob Boilen for a beautiful review of a youtube video I just keep coming back to.

[@JEFFRAUSCHL]

Nice to hear andsee some elctric guitars in an "unplugged" desktop session. Sweet!

[@gdub999tub.]

I have been absolutely consumed by a lot of music over the decades - but rarely anything that comes close to this.

[@MrStraccaletto]

Great music and interpretation. Bravissima e bellissima Cate👏

[@IanGustafson508]

20 people are not with me now.

[@jimsmint]

62 currently. tasteless gronks

[@andreah1023]

Timeless performance

[@prbblye]

love dat accent

[@creepstreeps]

CATE LE BON IS SOOOOO UNDERRATED. PLEASE MAKE HER RATED.

[@creepstreeps]

RATED R for RADICALLY PHENOMENAL

[@oscarcorbas1459]

i just had dinner with her at my grans house and showed her this aha

[@MayhemJack]

I hear VU influences there. Great music! Thanks NPR!

[@chuckamok12]

gddamn this is so in-the-moment jamming. cate is THE slept on talent of the 00+s.

[@mandomonica]

Great stuff - I love it! A little reminiscent of the Velvet Underground and Nico, though not copy cats. I love the simple arrangement with distortion and beautiful voices. Thanks NPR!

[@MichelleAhern-gr9zl]

Hey this is about cate le bon & her friend its lovely so so u thku

[@billymathias]

I love it. Pure, slack and beautiful.

[@josephkammerer2087]

+Billy Mathias Love the Mark2 Picture! Miss mine dearly..

[@billymathias]

+Joseph Kammerer o yes friend, wonderful car. My 16 valver is parked in the drive and looks alot like the picture. She is in need of a moderate restore. Can't let it go yet. Best intentions to get it done, but life gets in the way! All the best mate.

[@Jointanatomy]

thank you radiorox norway for letting me know gems like this still exists.

[@albertoregaldo1952]

Got to see them live when i didn't have any idea who they where! they are so great! It's amazing seeing them on NPR though

[@mariarigol7849]

This ist just so wonderful

[@itsjustjest]

Love this album

[@CH1098]

this is my favorite tiny desk concert

[@daskloppenfield]

you'd be hard pressed to find a sonic delight that could top this any time soon

[@ThePeaceFrog722]

This is really great- I loved it!

[@elroythewonderboy]

Damn I love her music.

[@guellrich]

Great! We are going to see Cate in Cologne next month - can't wait!

[@martinlatvian5538]

What a perfect lullaby

[@TonyLing]

I love this Pavement type lo-fi groove

[@LuciensMusic]

Fantastic voice!

[@watkinscopicat]

is that a cheeky little tom jones ref? "it's not unusual" love it!

[@jimsmint]

I reeeeally hope so

[@a.talyor1473]

I thought exactly the same thing. Got to be! It's too good not to be.

[@katiecannon8186]

Folks should check our Katell Keineg - especially her album “O Seasons O Castles”. Another great Welsh singer song writer.

[@daptobriefcase]

Magic

[@petercreed2539]

Cate le Bon is a queen 👸

[@MijailCioran]

Simplemente única. La amo.

[@originalvintage]

Good music!

[@deavonturenvanfreek9772]

She got a new fan

[@blauvampyroski]

Love! How glad am I stumbled across this beauty, In a strange way the accent kinda reminds me of Nico sometimes... Gonna share this with my little things.. keep them straying from the path of shyte muzak. Thank-you!

[@waynenorthspacebuoy3529]

So fabulous .... wish my Bowie performances were that good on You Tube ... so cool.

[@stevemann2682]

"I had no reason To be over optimistic But somehow when you smiled I can brave bad weather" made me think of the who , 1921

[@PatrickPoet]

I loved this. I'm really puzzled by the suggestion that the Beatles sang without accents though.

[@ericmckeegan9803]

As well as the suggestion that Cate Le Bon sings without a Welsh accent. C'mon Bob.

[@vkl47]

@@ericmckeegan9803 He doesn't say that.he says: " Her phrasing is completely tied to her Welsh dialect," I think you mis-read

[@KitCalder]

interviewer: 'why do you sing with american accents?' john: 'it pays better' that said the less rock n roll stuff they tended to do with their own accents; it makes sense to sing 'octopus' garden' that way but not so much 'yer blues'

[@garyives1218]

I'm really glad this just popped up in my suggested vids. Not even 3 minutes in and I'm thinking I'll try to get a copy of Mug Museum

[@ottohoulihan2743]

Fantastic. Cate le bon and H. Hawkline are fast becoming favourites of mine proving that the best stuffs from Wales (see Gorky's/Euros Childs also) And no, I'm not even Welsh.

[@morganthedruid1]

Tidy

[@chiliray4515]

Really nice. Glad I clicked when I did.

[@typoclerk]

Thanks for that. Cheers

[@krainey]

Beautiful

[@Teona1212]

Very beautiful, thanks !

[@gravlaxbob355]

Interesting to learn that she is is Welsh, I was wondering about it, her accent, I I thought she might be Belgian or even French. I discovered her not so long ago (better late...) and like her very much. There are many things in her songs that make her both classic and also quite original. I am not a musician myself but there are really somethings that catch my ear.

[@fufuberry23]

The need to change their band name to "two dope sweaters"

[@sangramsinghmalik]

so imperfect.

[@gatsch69]

so awesome!

[@marlowename3713]

can you imagine if she was around in the 60s and joined the Velvet Underground instead of Nico

[@williamwoody7607]

I think you mean to say can you believe how influential the velvet underground was. BTW Nico is probably as hard to duplicate as Jagger.

[@leedurbin4419]

🤨

[@MichelleAhern-gr9zl]

GEOŔGEOUS doe'nt need embelishing its beautiful perfect syncyķkk no makeup needed too❤😂❤

[@MichelleAhern-gr9zl]

No I m a velvets girl le bon too I adore le bon voice ❤

[@MichelleAhern-gr9zl]

Nico le bon together aaaaah are u with me now.

[@andrianacunningham7324]

this sounds like nico circa velvet underground daze

[@garmit61]

I think that does Cate a disservice. Nico sang flat , not that I didn’t like the velvets but Cate has so much more vocal range

[@delroywilson9588]

Except Cate can sing and has musical ideas.

[@martinwill38]

Great video of a lovely performance. It was super meeting you in Salt Lake City recently.

[@xxDragonTearsxx]

angel voiced lady

[@sureshkakaiya1825]

What a voice and guitar playing too, as good as Kurt Vile’s.

[@johnentwistle952]

and what's the relation between the two beside being good at playing guitar and singing? i don't see it

[@cmcbride]

@@johnentwistle952 They've toured together

[@johnentwistle952]

@@cmcbride right, my mistake

[@finnmccool7543]

Love!

[@neoacoustics]

love it!

[@jonathandavies7462]

Diolch Cariad ❤

[@KieranDacey]

love it

[@jonathanmorales1322]

Bella.

[@joshuahomme1]

3 of my fav songs... taylor made concert...i'd like to think. "The weather licked your face dry" "The weather licked your face dry"

[@flowersafeheart]

Really cool, distinct, interesting, low-key sound of voice + guitar! Didn't expect the last note! Will look up now if there are versions with drums too out of curiosity cause I like what drums add. A lot of comments mention similarities to Velvet Underground. Gonna give VU another listen, has been awhile.

[@josephmmalekzadeh]

I trust you were happy

[@konnyknees]

I fell in love, damn it

[@belialetta]

😍 😍 😍

[@downtowncowboy6554]

My love...

[@jimbojiveable]

too many facial close ups, i'm trying to learn how to play some of these songs

[@Pablov.castao]

xDDD true