Cate Le Bon’s Michelangelo Dying is a vivid grieving of a fantasy — a shimmering song cycle shaped by heartache and emotional abstraction. Her first album since 2022’s monumental Pompeii, it also features a moving collaboration with John Cale. A sought-after collaborator in her own right for the likes of Wilco, St. Vincent, and Horsegirl, on Michelangelo’s Dying, Le Bon’s singular production skills and instantly identifiable sound engenders an intimate, textural world where feeling overrides form.