'Shoeing the Bones' with Cate Le Bon

Welcome to Young Hollywood dot com.

Hey, what's up, Young Hollywood?

We are here in Silver Lake hanging out with the lovely Kate LaBon.

So, you are just now joining us fresh from the UK.

Yep.

I'm from Wales in the in the UK.

So it's yeah, it's really nice to be in Los Angeles in the sun.

So let's talk about this album.

It's getting a lot of hype.

A lot of people are talking about it.

How would you describe this album?

The name of the album is Me Oh My.

It was recorded in, I think, 11 days, just did it pretty organically with some good friends of mine playing instruments.

It just seemed to work, you know, and it's a bit folky, it's a bit psychedelic in parts.

It's um, it's a little bit dark.

So when you talk about it being dark, I recently saw a music video.

Uh, it's a video for the song Hollow Trees, House Hounds, and it was uh, directed by friends of mine who are incredible artists, uh, in Cardiff, Wales.

These days I long to gather moss.

Watch through our green stone grow.

And it's all stop motion animation and yeah, just meant to look like a B-movie horror, you know, and I think they, I think they succeeded in, in doing sticking to the brief.

Yes, they definitely did a wonderful job with that.

I felt like I was watching a horror movie.

It was, it was amazingly directed.

What inspired the concept behind that video?

I was quite keen to go down a route that was kind of opposite to other to different, you know, to other female um singer-songwriters, I guess.

Um and to try and steer away from uh cutesy folk images.

Tell us about the single Chewing the Bone.

Well, me and I grew up in the country and we had um horses and and I guess it's uh like a last ditch attempt of, you know, like I could the I guess chewing a bone because the the hoof has gone and, you know, it's like a last ditch attempt.

Do you play any instruments?

I saw a guitar inside as I was walking in.

Yeah, I play um I play guitar and bass, keyboards, and synths.

I'd like to say I play drums.

I'm sure there's lots of people who wouldn't agree with me.

Um, but I used to I used to play drums in a band.

Any artist in particular that kind of inspired you or somebody that you looked up to growing up as an aspiring artist?

In Wales, we've been very fortunate to have two of my favorite bands, a band called Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, who just did their own their own thing, you know, and it was very organic.

It was just what they did, you know, and they they've made some of the most incredible albums.

As has have Super Furry Animals, and I think having them as influences, uh, kind of makes you think that it's just okay to make the music that you make.

So if you could collaborate with any artist right now, who would it be?

Do they have to be alive?

No, they can be dead rolling in their grave.

Well, it would be, um, it would be Sid Barrett would be my first, I reckon.

And, uh, George Harrison, purely because gorgeous.

He was gorgeous anyway before he died.

Um, and I guess current day, I think it would probably be have to be Steve Malkmus.