Cat Power is the stage name of Chan Marshall, an American singer-songwriter known for a distinctive, melancholic voice and a career spanning raw early recordings to more arranged albums.

Reviews and public sources note: early minimal and raw records (Myra Lee, Moon Pix), acclaimed mid-career albums (You Are Free, The Greatest), a covers album, later stylistic shifts including electronic elements on Sun, and emotionally intense, occasionally unpredictable live performances.

DeBaser's reviews emphasise Chan Marshall's distinctive, melancholic voice and a career that moves from raw early recordings to more arranged, sometimes electronic, later albums. Key records discussed include Moon Pix, You Are Free, The Greatest and Sun. Live shows are noted as emotionally powerful and occasionally unpredictable.

For:Listeners of melancholic indie/folk/alternative music and readers interested in singer-songwriter album reviews.

 

But perhaps in the end, the most beautiful song on the album is the simplest of all: "Hate." Guitar and voice, contained anger that seems always on the verge of springing forward, hinting at a reaction that doesn't come, lived on the edge: a fascinating, vague, and restless sensation of repressed tension.

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the ease with which she has ventured into musically foreign territories to her background reveals the most personal and courageous work of her career.

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An album like that is definitely an experience.

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Aged, stately, with tousled hair like the High Priestess of Rock, alone with an electric guitar and a piano.

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