(AU magazine, November 2009)
Album review
Me Oh My. If this were The Wicker Man's Summerisle, Cardiff's Cate Le Bon would be a flaxen-haired harbinger of doom, weaving mystical confusion and murmuring darkly in forests about dire circumstances. She does almost exactly that on the thoroughly unnerving 'Burn Until The End' and you are Edward Woodward, all bewitched and enthralled. But it's not Summerisle, and Le Bon is better than Britt Ekland at singing (and dancing, one hopes). There's so much great musicianship here, and such great dark lyrics, that picking it all apart is a sin. Just immerse and enjoy this weird Welsh witchery.
8/10
DOWNLOAD: 'HOLLOW TREES HOUSE HOUNDS', 'TERROR OF THE MAN', 'BURN UNTIL THE END'.
FOR FANS OF: GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI, SUPER FURRY ANIMALS.
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