This is the first in an occasional series of features where one of our writers reflects on their five favourite tracks by a particular artist. Here, Greg Salter kicks things off with Cat Power , who recently announced that her new record, Sun , is due on Matador in September. ‘Cross Bones Style’, from Moon Pix , 1998 ‘Cross Bones Style’ is probably the most accessible moment on Moon Pix , Chan Marshall’s absorbing, meditative, dark and best album (not a difficult task, admittedly). [...]
Cat Power , aka Chan Marshall, is not a new comer to indie rock. She has been on the block some time, dealing with multiple bands, drug and alcohol problems, and every other thing under the sun. She has produced 8 LPs and 2 EPs during her time, some critically acclaimed and others not so much. But all this experience has brought her the one grand thing that a life with such triumphs and troubles promises: soul. She sings with her heart on her sleeve, her voice in the realm of Fiona Apple and the late Amy Winehouse. Her latest [...]
"If I die before my time, bury me upside down," Chan Marshall sings in the chorus of "Cherokee," the second cut from her new Cat Power album to reach our ears in as many weeks. A fairly bleak way to open a record, for sure, but - as with "Ruin" and charity single "King Rides By" - Marshall goes down fighting, seeking out some transcendence amid a slick, Philippe Zdar-mixed groove. The mood isn't too far off from the bittersweet vibe from her last set of all-original material, The Greatest. This time, though, you can sort of dance [...]
Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power , has revealed another song from her new album, Sun . Last week, we posted the latin-tinged Ruin (download below) and now NPR is streaming the opening track, Cherokee . You can check that out here . Sun is out September 4th through Matador . MP3 : Cat Power - Ruin Tracklist: [...]
Our favourite distressed yet lovely lady Chan Marshall AKA CAT POWER is working on a new album, Sun . Finally. It’s been six years since her last original LP, The Greatest . Six years too long. Over the course of a twenty-year career, full of despondency, peppered with angst, and salted with her powerhouse vocals, Cat Power has gained many lovers, and sure, a few haters. But those people just don’t appreciate the kind of tell-it-like-it-is lyrical genius that comes to this woman- who by the way totally gets [...]
More than less of us will doubtless have experienced that dismal numbness that sinks to the bottom of your soul when the last petal of a once blossoming romance falls. Some seek a therapeutic form of catharsis in self-shearing, and that's what Chan Marshall went and did following the dissolution of her amorous attachment to Lost In Translation man Giovanni Ribisi. Ruin is the first track to be outed from forthcoming LP Sun , which just so happens to be the first original Cat Power effort since the phenomenal The Greatest way back [...]
oh what a day! first new strand of oaks song, now a new cat power song/record!!!! its off chan's forthcoming matador release entitled sun, which is due out soon.... song is great, and its an immediately a best of 2012 contender just cause. its her first record in over 6 years - damn the greatest has been suiting me well for a lot of freaking years. well, and the rest of her back catalogue. ruin
It has been over half a decade since we last heard an original track from Cat Power . For any fan of any band, that's an eternity... but you can't rush solid songwriting, right? Right. It may have been 6 years since Chan Marshall released her critically acclaimed album, The Greatest , but now we find out that we not only have a new song to listen to, but a new album on the horizon. Sun will be the Georgia-born singer-songwriter's 9th studio album, with her debut having been back in 1995. Below you can listen to the [...]
Several months after her single (well, cover of her own song) “King Rides By” for the Manny Pacquiao Charity, Cat Power has finally released new (original!) material in the form of her latest full-length Sun (see tracklist below) with the first single “Ruin.” Apparently having played multiple instruments on the album and producing it herself as well, Chan Marshall seems to be returning to the good ol’ independent singer/songwriter days on Moon Pix and What Would the Community Think , but this time with a bigger, (and apparently) more ethnic sound, as witness in the [...]
After six long years since 2006's The Greatest , we are finally getting an album of new material from Cat Power . The follow-up, Sun , was performed and produced by Chan Marshall in various locations including a studio she built in Malibu. It will be released on September 4th through Matador . The first track from the record is highly addictive and piano-driven Ruin . Surprisingly, the song doesn't have the somber feel you would expect from an album [...]
Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, has announced the release of her album, Sun, which marks her first new piece of material in six years. Sun was performed and produced by Cat Power in various locations, including her newly built studio in Malibu. Cat Power will release Sun September 4th through Matador. [...]
Chan Marshall sigue dando detalles de Sun , su nuevo trabajo discográfico tras cuatro años de ausencia. Ruin , el primer single, ya se puede escuchar a continuación. Sun será lanzado el 4 de septiembre vía Matador. Cat Power - Ruin \n Tracklist de Sun 01. Cherokee 02. Sun 03. Ruin 04. 3,6,9 [...]
Cat Power - Sun Cat Power is back. Six years after her last album of original material, The Greatest , and four years after Jukebox , her second album of covers, Chan Marshall will release Sun , her much anticipated new album, on Matador on 3rd September. As a taster for the new record, she's made 'Ruin', a track from the album, available to download - you can do so here . After an initial few listens, 'Ruin' brings to mind some of the more lively songs [...]
Chan Marshall (AKA Cat Power) seems to have pulled herself out of the self-destruction that has destroyed some of the greatest musicians of her generation. At least we can hope so. Aside from her 2008 covers record Jukebox and her 2006 record The Greatest , Marshall has been remarkably silent. Jukebox was disappointing and The Greatest was a sort of Dusty Springfield homage where Marshall seemed to be reconnecting to her musical roots. "Ruin," the first listen from Sun [...]
Chan Marshall's 2010 goal of performing all the instruments on the next Cat Power record worked out: Sun , the 11-track follow-up to her last set of all-original songs, The Greatest , arrives as a self-performed and self-produced effort on September 4th. Today brings our first taste in the form of this Austin Conroy-directed introduction video for "Ruin"- complete with album art (recalling Cat Power's early years a bit) and the tracklist below. Preview the lead cut above, or take it on the road with this free MP3 via Matador. [...]
Download the first track from Cat Power 's forthcoming Sun , out September 4 on Matador . Produced by Chan Marshall / mixed by Philippe Zdar . mp3: Cat Power :: Ruin
News of yet another long-awaited release we've been expecting to hear word about this year just hit: Cat Power's follow-up to 20082s Jukebox (a set of mostly covers) and 20062s all-original LP, The Greatest , is set for September 11, 2012. While Chan Marshall herself unveiled the final title and expected release date over the weekend, she's been fairly open about the recording process over the past few years - first sharing its tentative title for the Times way back in the fall of '06, then describing her goal of [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Brendon Thorne, Getty Images JERUSALEM (AP) - American musician Cat Power has canceled her show in Israel , joining a list of artists shunning the country over its conflict with the Palestinians . Charlyn Marie Marshall , better known by her stage name Cat Power, was to perform in Tel Aviv on Sunday. But she tweeted on Friday [...]
Dün akşam Avea Escape to Music kapsamında düzenlenen Cat Power konseri maalesef çoğu kişi için sinir harbi ve hayal kırıklığına dönüştü. Şubat ayının heyecanla beklenen konserleri arasındaydı Cat Power. Biletleri tükenmiş, kapıda sınırlı sayıda bilet satışı yapılacağı açıklanmıştı. Dolayısıyla kalabalık ve sıkışık bir geceye hazırdı herkes. Ama kötü muameleye, bir buçuk saatten fazla beklemeye, çocuk gibi ellerinden fotoğraf makinelerinin alınmasına hazırlıklı değillerdi. Konser saati biletin üzerinde, Biletix’te, Garajistanbul’un sitesinde, etkinlik afişinde kısaca bakabileceğimiz her yerde 21:00 olarak belirtimiş. Salon ve ardından Babylon’un konserleri saatinde başlatma uygulamalarından sonra “Konser yazan saatte başlamaz yieea” yaklaşımının bittiğini düşünmüştüm, yanılmışım. Burada konserlerin [...]
As I mentioned earlier in the month, the Dirty Three have a new LP dropping in February. My copy has been on repeat, but revisiting the Melbourne trio's last output - 20052s Cinder - I was reminded how I used to imagine what the album's cornerstone track, "Great Waves," would sound like with Will Oldham [...]
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