title: Reward (album)
text: # Reward (album)
  
  Reward is the fifth studio album by Welsh musician Cate Le Bon, released on 24 May 2019 by Mexican Summer.
  
  ## Composition
  
  Reward dives into "revelatory" art pop and is a "lurid rush" of avant-pop music.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Aggregate scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AnyDecentMusic? | 8.2/10 |
  | Metacritic | 87/100 |
  | Review scores ||
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Exclaim! | 8/10 |
  | Financial Times | |
  | The Guardian | |
  | Mojo | |
  | Pitchfork | 8.4/10 |
  | Q | |
  | Rolling Stone | |
  | The Times | |
  | Uncut | 9/10 |
  
  Reward was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 87, based on 18 reviews.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Credits are adapted from the Reward liner notes.
  
  Musicians
  
  * Cate Le Bon – vocals, guitars & synths (all tracks), Mellotron (2), piano (2, 4-6, 10), percussion (3, 5, 7, 8), bass (7, 9)
  * Stephen Black – bass (2-6, 8, 9), saxophone (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10), clarinet (10)
  * Stella Mozgawa – drums (2-5, 7-10), percussion (3-6)
  * H. Hawkline – percussive guitar (1), slide guitar (6), guitar (9)
  * Samur Khouja – guitar (9)
  * Josh Klinghoffer – guitar (3, 4, 8), synth (8)
  * Josiah Steinbrick – percussion (4, 6, 8), synths (4, 8, 9)
  * Kurt Vile – vocals (8)
  
  Technical
  
  * Cate Le Bon – production (all tracks)
  * Samur Khouja – production (all tracks), engineering
  * Josiah Steinbrick – production (2-10)
  * Stephen Black – additional engineering
  * Noah Georgeson – mixing
  * Heba Kadry – mastering
  
  Artwork and design
  
  * Phil Collins / Shady Lane Productions – art direction
  * Ivana Kličković – photography & styling
  * Andrea Bennett, Lisa Breitfeld, and Christian Fritzenwanker – hair & makeup
  * H. Hawkline – design and layout
  
  ## Charts
  
  | Chart (2019) | Peak position |
  | - | - |
  | Scottish Albums (OCC) | 32 |
  | UK Albums (OCC) | 86 |
  | US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) | 8 |
  | US Independent Albums (Billboard) | 32 |
  | US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) | 35 |
  