“The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album

John Cale and Cate Le Bon.

It’s difficult to shake the feeling that Cate Le Bon’s return home to Wales gave her the grounding needed to face the heartache she’d been running from.

Her long-term romantic relationship with American musician Tim Presley, with whom she’d recorded two albums as DRINKS, had ended, leaving her in doubt about her next move. She decided to move back to Cardiff from the US.