The album was planning to be released in 2024 but Le Bon felt too exhausted after a break-up, even thought she described the album as something cathartic realising you are totally abandoned of a certain lover, so the break-up is always like an amputation you don't want but it will save you in the end. The dissolution of a long-term relationship, and throughout Michelangelo Dying she wrties and express with sadness, desolation, tenderness, and the feelings of self-satisfaction that come in the acceptance phase and the industrial and angular sounds were meant to violently tamper down her grief.
Musically, the album represents a natural continuation of its 2022 and brilliant, "Pompeii". The opening track, "Jerome", finds her “eating rocks” and drawing out the word “cry" and the bass playing has a reminiscent of the style Mick Karn brought to Japan and Euan Hinshelwood’s saxophone tends towards a continual emotive note. "Love Unrehearsed" gives the album its title, a theme developed with references to “a marble face” and the question, “does she sleep like a stone?” There are hints of the emotional chaos of post-relationship trauma with conflicting lines, Hinshelwood's playing at the song’s conclusion is especially lyrical and gives it a lift.
Next is "Mother of Riches" that provides ‘Michelangelo Dying’ its first instantly memorable melody. The interplay between keys, guitar and sax weaves well-layered patterns while the drums and percussion of Dylan Hadley and Valentina Magaletti stand out as it sends the song in some unexpected rhythmic directions. The glorious "Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)" continues with a deeply melodic vein, its slow-motion sliding style akin to floating through treacle, trying to celebrate while in torment.
The complex "Pieces Of My Heart" echo the discombobulation that she feels from the opening line, “this is how we fall apart” it captures a gamut of emotions from muddle, through denial and resignation. That understatement is maintained on the spacious "About Time". "Heaven Is No Feeling" proves itself one of the record's most memorable tracks with Le Bon's vocals veer from coolly observational to rising and swooping as the sax captures the heated intensity of the scene, "Body Is A River" breaks up the mood before she is joined by John Cale on the chorus of the crawling "Ride" a song finishes with some rare vocal histrionics which contrasts effectively with Cale's deadpan delivery. The album finishes with "I Know What's Nice" a song that almost collapses in on itself under the weight of emotions at the end of the song, Le Bon acknowledges, “I’m leaving someone I love / I can’t breathe for someone I love” before repeating “I can’t break down”.
A truly raw emotion throught the record with a diverse musical shifts in where Le Bon created a brilliant/fine beauty from her rollercoaster of feeling, inspired in breakup things and relations thus not a collection of the artist long-term relantionships in its demise, she use her feelings to write an album with different focus and great music offering a richer experience.
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