After a long relationship ended painfully, the acclaimed singer-producer swapped the Californian desert for south Wales – and set to work on her most emotionally direct record yet. ‘It’s been discombobulating,’ she saysCate Le Bon has shaved her head. She had been wanting to do it for ages. “Just feels nice to get rid of this hair you’ve had on your head for a long time,” she says, cutting into a mushroom pie outside a south London pub in early May. “Feels quite restorative. Feels functional, which I like.”Her blue sweater vest exposes her bare arms, the left tattooed with a tiny “T” wearing a crown, to the stealthy midday heat. A woman shaving her head can carry a lot of cultural baggage, but can also get rid of it. Typically pragmatic, ever in her own lane, the Welsh musician and producer hasn’t really noticed a reaction either way. “I’ve really just been in the bubble of friends and family for the past year, not really been out and about too much, which has been really nice.” Continue reading...