Cat Power: The Greatest
CASE MEMORIAL LIBRARY CALL NUMBER: CD/ROCK/Cat
ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.matadorrecords.com/cat_power/
Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times: "Chan Marshall, who records under the name Cat Power . . . has an exceptional new album. . . . The title song begins the album gorgeously: a poem about frustrated ambition, told through the story of a boxer, with glittering guitar chords, strings that quote 'Moon River,' and a slow drum rhythm. 'Once I wanted to be the greatest,' she sings. 'Two fists of solid rock / with brains that could explain / any feeling.' But something happens to the boxer: those brains, that lucidity, become smothered. 'Then came the rush of the flood,' it continues, over rest-riddled, backwards-sounding bass lines. 'Stars of night turned deep to dust.' Its potency lies not just in the music, but the hint of its possible truth, the suggestion that Ms. Marshall's erratic run has been a kind of long-haul training regimen -- or that underneath each weird, baleful gesture lies a desire to be incontestably great. 'Could We,' a few tracks later, almost attains the same level. . . ." ("The Slacker Divas' 10th Anniversary Gift," 1/15/06)
ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.matadorrecords.com/cat_power/
Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times: "Chan Marshall, who records under the name Cat Power . . . has an exceptional new album. . . . The title song begins the album gorgeously: a poem about frustrated ambition, told through the story of a boxer, with glittering guitar chords, strings that quote 'Moon River,' and a slow drum rhythm. 'Once I wanted to be the greatest,' she sings. 'Two fists of solid rock / with brains that could explain / any feeling.' But something happens to the boxer: those brains, that lucidity, become smothered. 'Then came the rush of the flood,' it continues, over rest-riddled, backwards-sounding bass lines. 'Stars of night turned deep to dust.' Its potency lies not just in the music, but the hint of its possible truth, the suggestion that Ms. Marshall's erratic run has been a kind of long-haul training regimen -- or that underneath each weird, baleful gesture lies a desire to be incontestably great. 'Could We,' a few tracks later, almost attains the same level. . . ." ("The Slacker Divas' 10th Anniversary Gift," 1/15/06)
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