Blog: Stereogum

Chan Marshall hasn't released a new Cat Power album since the 2008 covers collection Jukebox , but she'll return to the game in September with the new LP Sun , an album that she recorded around the same time that she went through a bad breakup with the actor Giovanni Ribisi. The first single is "Ruin," and it has unexpectedly Latin-tinged piano and a vocal way more sprightly than anything you'd expect to hear on a Cat Power breakup album. It's a sharp, spacious, almost buoyant pop song about traveling the world, and we've got a download of [...]

• Cat Power - Ruin