“Listening to Cat Power's *The Covers Record* is distracting me from the task at hand. I'm writing, but I'm typing slowly under the album's spell. I'm also asking myself, "Isn't a 7.6 a bit high for a covers album?" Chan Marshall didn't write these songs-- I heard she didn't even practice them. She likely spent less than an afternoon in the studio. Sure, it's an endearing concept, but 7.6 for a "it”
“Cat Power is Atlanta-born singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, hagged out and mobbed up. Her 1998 breakthrough, Moon Pix, was a feast of raggedy, sorrowful folk-punk hymns like "Metal Heart," and while we await her next album of new material, due next winter, The Covers Record provides a stopgap fix of her unnerving, coldblooded voice and shaky […]”
