Cate Le Bon’s poignant elegy for her recently deceased grandmother, Are You With Me Now?, is a melancholy gem from her 2013 album Mug Museum.

There are some artists, just a few, who I admire rather more for what they represent than for their actual music. That changed when I heard this song in Lena ‘Girls’ Dunham’s new TV show Too Much.

Cate Le Bon always seems like someone I should like – she’s a multi-talented polymath whose music delves into interesting and unpredictable areas without ever settling in one. But it doesn’t always engage me aurally and emotionally.

This song, Are You With Me Now?, taken from her 2013 album Mug Museum, does both those things.

It’s built around a deceptively simple guitar riff that could have come from something or someone much heavier. And it has a catchy chorus that can’t be resisted, making it an immediate earworm. Plus a lovely video.

More than that, it has a melancholy mood that fits its genesis as a reflection on the recent death of Cate’s grandmother, to whom she was very close.

It’s amplified in the video, in which we see her chainsmoking at a pottery wheel, aided by a young girl – a niece perhaps? – and, on one occasion, assisted by a pair of ghostly hands from the afterlife.

It’s poignant and beautiful and now I want to hear more of Cate, who first came to attention supported Gruff Rhys and sang on I Lust U, the single from his side project Neon Neon.

I’ve only seen her once, by chance, at the Heavenly Social, when she played with a three-piece experimental electronic outfit about whom I can find no trace anywhere; I remember they had a name like Yuk or Yuck and that she was thrilled when I told her afterwards that they reminded me of Suicide.

I had hoped to hear more but it was not to be, though I see she is about to release a new album called Michelangelo Dying.