{"id":490450,"date":"2019-09-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=889217"},"modified":"2019-09-24T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:00:00","slug":"cate-le-bon-and-bradford-cox-salute-bored-office-workers-on-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/cate-le-bon-and-bradford-cox-salute-bored-office-workers-on-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Le Bon and Bradford Cox Salute Bored Office Workers on \u2018Secretary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cate-Le-Bon-x-Bradford-Cox.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cate-le-bon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cate-le-bon\" data-tag=\"cate-le-bon\">Cate Le Bon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/deerhunter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_deerhunter\" data-tag=\"deerhunter\">Deerhunter<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bradford-cox\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bradford-cox\" data-tag=\"bradford-cox\">Bradford Cox<\/a> pay tribute to bored office workers on their new art-rock song, \u201cSecretary.\u201d The track is the first single off their collaborative EP <em>Myths 004,<\/em> out November 1st via Mexican Summer.<\/p>\n<p>The track features subtle cymbals to mirror the monotonous day-to-day life of office workers who eat \u201cthe same old plastic lunch.\u201d Le Bon takes the lead, her delicate vocals uttering the chorus: \u201cCan I take some time?\/Can you stay on hold?\/Take a holiday\/Make amendments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Myths 004<\/em> is the fourth album in the label\u2019s Myths EP series. The duo wrote and recorded the album in a week in Marfa, Texas, in April 2018. \u201cMarfa is an extraordinary town,\u201d Le Bon said in a statement. \u201cIt feels like nothing else exists when you\u2019re in it, which is both comforting and unnerving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Le Bon also unveiled <em>Have a Seat<\/em>, a mini-documentary that captures her furniture building residency at the label\u2019s Marfa Myths Festival in 2018. She describes the year-long hiatus she took from music and the oak chair she made in the process. \u201cIt\u2019s not comfortable, and it\u2019s not particularly beautiful,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/cate-le-bon-reward-interview-839256\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> in May. \u201cI built myself a strange little throne, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J8o6pFynkYc?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several of Le Bon\u2019s collaborators appear on the record, including Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa and Tim Presley of White Fence. \u201cWe committed ourselves to embracing the chaos, surrendering to all moments and moods that we traveled through,\u201d Le Bon added. \u201cIt\u2019s a crude holiday scrapbook shared by all involved, an amalgamation of the changes in mood and light that shaped the days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Le Bon co-produced Deerhunter\u2019s eighth album \u2014 2019\u2019s <em>Why Hasn\u2019t Everything Already Disappeared \u2014<\/em> before releasing her own record, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-cate-le-bons-reward-837956\/\"><em>Reward<\/em><\/a>. She\u2019s currently on a European fall tour, playing a three-night stint in Paris with John Cale from September 23rd through 25th and several dates with Deerhunter in November. Deerhunter\u2019s European tour wraps up on November 20th in Poland.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Myths 004<\/em> Tracklist<\/strong><br \/>1. Canto!<br \/>2. Secretary<br \/>3. Companions In Misfortune<br \/>4. Constance<br \/>5. Fireman<br \/>6. Jericho<br \/>7. What Is She Wearing<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cate-le-bon-and-bradford-cox-secretary-889217\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cate Le Bon and Deerhunter\u2019s Bradford Cox pay tribute to bored office workers on their new art-rock song, \u201cSecretary.\u201d The track is the first single off their collaborative EP Myths 004, out November 1st via Mexican Summer. The track features subtle cymbals to mirror the monotonous day-to-day life of office workers who eat \u201cthe same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 13:54:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}