Cate Le Bon is back with her first new music since 2022's standalone single "Typical Love". Out today, the silky, warped sax-starring "Heaven is No Feeling" provides an early look at the Welsh artist's newly-announced seventh album, Michelangelo Dying, which drops this September 26 via Mexican Summer.

Watch the video for "Heaven is No Feeling", directed by H. Hawkline, below:

Dripping with heartache, the record took shape through a process the press release describes as "a kind of exorcism" and an "attempt to photograph a wound before it closes up — but which in doing so, picks at it too."

The ten songs on Michelangelo Dying took shape between Cardiff, London, Los Angeles, and the Greek island of Hydra, with the album ultimately reaching its completion in the Californian desert. Evan Hinshelwood's sax plays a major role across the album, becoming "the voice that takes over when words are too concrete for the feeling." Pianist Paul Jones and drummers/percussionists Valentina Magaletti and Dylan Hadley round out the cast of close friends who worked with Le Bon on the record, while John Cale drops in to lend his voice to the mournful "Ride".

Le Bon has become an increasingly in-demand producer in recent years, including on Horsegirl's Phonetics On and On and several tracks from St. Vincent's All Born Screaming. For Michelangelo Dying, though, she's shared those duties with "co-pilot" Samur Khouja, who has contributed to her two most recent LPs, 2019's Reward and 2022's Pompeii.

As Le Bon says:

“There’s this idea that you could do everything yourself, but the value of having someone you completely trust, as I do Samur, be your co-pilot allows you to get completely lost knowing you’ll get pulled back in at the right moment. We have come to quietly move as one in the studio.”

Speaking on the video, Hawkline says:

“There are moments in life you can’t make up, that seem unfathomable, then they happen. Life calls you on a banana phone and tells you her oldest joke, everybody crowds around and you try to remember the words to your favourite song. If you were to ask me how we made this video, I couldn’t tell you. Cate watching her, watching her watching Cate. I will always feel honoured to work with Cate in whatever shape or form, it’s easy to forget how remarkable someone is when you’ve known them forever. ‘I want you to make me a new video.’ ‘Have you watched the old one yet?’ ‘No’ …Bravo!’"

Michelangelo Dying is out September 26. Pre-order here. Full tracklist:

1. Jerome
2. Love Unrehearsed
3. Mothers of Riches
4. Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?
5. Pieces of my Heart
6. About Time
7. Heaven is No Feeling
8. Body as a River
9. Ride (feat. John Cale)
10. I Know What's Nice

Le Bon has also shared a slew of European shows happening this fall, plus North American dates locked in for January 2026. Tickets go on sale this Friday (June 6). See the full list of dates below:

10/09 Cardiff, UK @ Llais, Wales Millennium Centre
10/10 Manchester, UK @ New Century
10/11 Leeds, UK @ Howard Assembly Rooms
10/13 Glasgow, UK @ St. Luke's
10/14 York, UK @ The Crescent
10/15 Gateshead, UK @ Glasshouse
10/17 Brighton, UK @ Chalk
11/06 Madrid, ES @ Mon
11/07 Barcelona, ES @ Paral·lel 62
11/09 Brussels, BE @ Botanique
11/10 Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
11/12 Berlin, DE @ Säälchen
11/13 Hamburg, DE @ Nochtspeicher
11/14 Cologne, DE @ Gebäude 9
11/16 Paris, FR @ Cabaret Sauvage
11/18 London, UK @ Barbican
01/12 Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre
01/13 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
01/15 Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
01/16 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
01/17 Hudson, NY @ Basilica Hudson
01/19 Montréal, QC @ Le National
01/20 Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall
01/22 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
01/23 Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium
01/24 Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
01/27 Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
01/28 Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
01/30 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
01/31 Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco