Cate Le Bon will release new album Reward on May 24 via Mexican Summer. “People hear the word ‘reward’ and they think that it’s a positive word” says Le Bon, “and to me it’s quite a sinister word in that it depends on the relationship between the giver and the receiver. I feel like it’s really indicative of the times we’re living in where words are used as slogans, and everything is slowly losing its meaning.” She worked with frequent collaborators Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint), H.Hawkline and co-producer Samur Khouja, and Reward was originally conceived as a spare piano record but grew beyond that. You can still hear those beginnings in lovely first single "Daylight Matters" -- listen below.

You can see Cate on tour this summer, and the trek kicks off with two NYC-area shows: Kingston, NY's BSP on June 25 and in Brooklyn's Elsewhere Hall on June 26. The tour wraps up in Chicago for the 2019 Pitchfork Festival.

Tickets for BSP and Elsewhere go on sale Friday, March 22 at 10 AM. All dates are listed, along with album art and tracklist, below.

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Reward tracklist

1. Miami

2. Daylight Matters

3. Home To You

4. Mother’s Mother’s Magazines

5. Here It Comes Again

6. Sad Nudes

7. The Light

8. Magnificent Gestures

9. You Don’t Love Me

10. Meet The Man

Cate Le Bon - 2019 Tour Dates

Sat. May 18 - Wrexham, UK @ Focus Wales Festival

Fri. May 24 - Rouen, FR @ Rush Festival

Sat. May 25 - Toulouse, FR @ Discipline Festival

Sun. May 26 - Madrid, ES @ Independance Club

Mon. May 27 - Donostia, ES @ Dabadaba

Tue. May 28 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound Festival

Wed. May 29 - Bordeaux, FR @ iBoat

Fri. May 31 - Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret Festival

Sat. June 1 - Neustrelitz, DE @ Immergut Festival

Sun. June 2 - Berlin, DE @ Kantine Am Berghain

Mon. June 3 - Copenhagen, DK @ Den Grå Hal (w/ Deerhunter)

Tue. June 4 - Aarhus, DK @ Tape

Thu. June 6 - Cologne, DE @ Bumann & SOHN

Fri. June 7 - Brussels, BE @ Les Ateliers Claus

Sat. June 8 - Paris, FR @ Villette Sonique

Mon. June 10 - London, UK @ Village Underground

Sat. June 22 - Calgary, AB @ Sled Island Festival

Tue. June 25 - Kingston, NY @ BSP Kingston

Wed. June 26 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere

Thu. June 27 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat

Fri. June 28 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle

Sat. June 29 - North Adams, MA @ Solid Sound Festival

Sun. June 30 - Somerville, MA @ ONCE Lounge

Fri. July 5 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s

Sat. July 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Getty Center

Sun. July 7 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Moe’s Alley

Tue. July 9 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel

Fri. July 12 - Seattle, WA @ Doug Fir Lounge

Thu. July 18 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue (w/ Parquet Courts)

Sat. July 20 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Festival

Fri. Aug. 23 - Bethesda, UK @ Neuadd Ogwen

Sat. Aug. 24 - West Lothian, UK @ Jupiter Rising Festival

Sun. Aug. 25 - Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Tue. Aug. 27 - Manchester, UK @ Gorilla

Wed. Aug. 28 - Leeds, UK @ Riley Smith Theatre

Thu. Aug. 29 - Cardiff, UK @ Portland House

Sun. Sept. 1 - Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival