Cate Le Bon Explains Pompeii’s Sonic Inspirations

I mean, I think Pompeii is this feeling

that you will be forever connected to everything.

Yeah, so the record, you know, was a pandemic record

in the sense it was made during the pandemic.

I had plans to go somewhere quite, I guess, remote

to make the record, but ended up

in a house in Cardiff where I'd lived 15 years previously.

Not much has really changed in it since I lived there,

and I was finding items that I'd left there,

you know, in my 20s.

Things like mugs, pedals, cymbals, like

it was like being haunted by, you know,

a past version of yourself.

I guess the memories of the future that you have

when you're in your 20s,

and confronting those now when you are in your 30s.

You know, whilst I've been doing everything

I've been doing over the past 10 years,

physically been in all these different places

that during that time, there's been an item

of mine that has been completely stationary

and all these things that I remembered

about the house instinctively,

like remembering where the light switches were

and all the sounds that the house made

and thinking about, you know,

where is that stored in me and what else

am I storing inside of me that is maybe

not serving a purpose anymore?

What lived in that house and what you retain in yourself

and what serves you and what doesn't serve you anymore.