Cate Le Bon and St. Vincent team up for a new duet: watch the video for "Always The Same"

A new collaboration joins the sonic universe of Cate Le Bon: it's "Always The Same", a track shared with St. Vincent, born during the sessions for "Michelangelo Dying", the album released last September. Left off the final tracklist, the song nonetheless retains the same hallucinated, floating atmosphere that runs through the record, built on murky synths and deliberately unstable sonic trajectories.

Le Bon, long a central figure in the more restless and visionary strains of art-pop, finds a natural accomplice here in Annie Clark. Although in recent years St. Vincent has opted for a less overtly avant-garde style of songwriting, she retains a kindred sensibility, one able to converse frictionlessly with the Welsh musician's sonic world. The result is a track that seems to move through a liminal space: close to the aesthetic heart of "Michelangelo Dying", yet independent enough to demand a life of its own. Watch the video below.

Le Bon herself explains this choice in a note accompanying the single's release: "'Always The Same' needed a bit more room to move than the album could give it, but it remains a close relative of the song cycle on 'Michelangelo Dying', born of the same breath. It's a special song for me because it features a dear friend and a formidable artist in St. Vincent, who occupies the space around me with poise and gravitas while I move through the murky waters of love."

"Always The Same" thus presents itself as a kind of lateral extension of the album: not a simple outtake, but a meaningful detour, one that brings into focus an artistic dialogue as understated as it is intense.

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