Product Description

1996's WHAT WOULD THE COMMUNITY THINK? Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall's second album under the name Cat Power, finds the North Carolinian at lo-fi maverick Doug Easley's Memphis studio, her soft, engagingly shy voice and delicate acoustic guitar supported by Easley's pedal steel and Sonic Youthdrummer Steve Shelley's percussion. Though Easley and Shelley are better known for working with much louder, noisier artists than Marshall, they never overpower her sensitive but sturdy material.
Sounding more self-assured than she did on her debut, 1995's DEAR SIR, Marshall invests more passionand fire in songs like the foreboding "Water and Air" and the obsessive, feedback and piano-laced title track than one expects to find in the slacker-friendly lo-fi genre. Elsewhere, the delicate "King Rides By" is an unvarnished love songthat packs an equally powerful emotional wallop. This is anoutstanding, underrated album.

Track Listing

1. In This Hole
2. Good Clean Fun
3. What Would The Community Think
4. Nude As The News
5. They Tell Me
6. Taking People
7. Fate Of The Human Carbine
8. King Rides By
9. Bathosphere
10. Water And Air
11. Enough
12. Coat Is Always On

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44719 in Music
• Released on: 1996-09-09
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Heartrending raw-edged blues
Called the female Will Oldham by sexist critics and ridiculously underappreciated, CP effortlessly pack tonnes of pathos into every song without ever overdoing it--they never stray into AOR or gross sentiment. Not as good as the more recent "Moonpix" but still great.