“Chan Marshall, who records under the alias Cat Power, boasts more musical prowess than many singer-songwriters would even know what to do with. In fact, after nine gleaming LPs, she almost stopped doing anything with it—she told The New York Times that after getting pregnant in 2014, she thought about abandoning her music career to move to Australia and change her name to Beth. Instead of fulfilli”
“Cat Power's Wanderer is the latest in her line of superb records”
“Chan Marshall possesses the authority of a seasoned blueswoman on her excellent new LP”
“‘Nothing but Time’, the shimmering centrepiece of Cat Power’s last album, ‘Sun’, is an 11-minute, Iggy Pop-featuring opus about doubt and depression (“It’s nothing but time / And it ain’t got nothing on you”). This was the sound of someone convincing themselves to give life another go – by contrast, the centrepiece to new album ‘Wanderer’, the joyous Lana Del Rey collaboration ‘Woman’, concludes w”
“On her first album in six years, Chan Marshall roams the many moods of her songwriting with a careful, soft-spoken power.”
“On 2012’s ‘Sun’, Cat Power stepped outside of what seemed like her comfort zone and produced a record that placed synthesisers in predominant positions and sometimes embraced auto-tune. Six years on, Chan Marshall finds herself returning to a more familiar sphere. Produced entirely by Marshall herself, ‘Wanderer’ is built almost entirely on a foundation of guitar and piano, occasionally accompanie”
