Cat Power's 1998 album Moon Pix continues Chan Marshall's transformation from an indie rock Cassandra into a reflective, accomplished singer/songwriter. Where her previous works were an urgent, aching mix of punk, folk, and blues, Moon Pix is truly soul(ful) music: warm, reflective, complex, and cohesive. For this album, Marshall moved the recording sessions for the album to Australia, and switched her rhythm section to the Dirty Three's Mick Turner and Jim White; the lineup changes add new depth and light to her compelling, intricate guitar work and gently insistent vocals. From the backwards drum loop on "American Flag" (borrowed from the Beastie Boys' "Paul Revere") to the fluttering, smoky flutes on "He Turns Down" to the double-tracked vocals and crashing thunderstorms of "Say," Moon Pix's expressive arrangements mirror the songs' fine emotional shadings. Marshall is sunny on the quietly hopeful "You May Know Him," hypnotic and seductive on "Cross Bones Style," and poignant on "Colors & the Kids," where she sings, "It's so hard to go into the city/Because you want to say hi, hello, I love you to everybody." As natural and refined as a pearl, Moon Pix is a collection of fragile yet strong songs that reveal Marshall's unique, personal songwriting talents in their full glory.
This song moves me in so many ways. the range of emotions are so varied lyrically, but it is the inflections to these words throughout the song that shows how chan marshall has a talent for expressing the most haunting and fragile intimacies of sorrow.
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I was in my local "Newbury Comics":http://www.newburycomics.com Friday night after work, using a $15 gift card I'd received for Christmas, when it happened.Once again, I had been sucked in by what the stafff was playing over their sound system, and was 'audio-brainwashed' into buying the cd...This time it was 'Moon Pix' by Cat Power. I'd always enjoyed her songs when I'd heard them at parties o...
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This song resides in a sad part of my life having to do with one of my failed attempts at a relationship. Everytime I listen to it I am reminded of things falling apart with a certain someone. For some odd reason though, as the years have gone by, I now find comfort in this song. I don't think it's one of those "misery loves company" situations, but rather that I find solace in the fact that...
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This song moves me in so many ways. the range of emotions are so varied lyrically, but it is the inflections to these words throughout the song that shows how chan marshall has a talent for expressing the most haunting and fragile intimacies of sorrow.
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I was in my local "Newbury Comics":http://www.newburycomics.com Friday night after work, using a $15 gift card I'd received for Christmas, when it happened.Once again, I had been sucked in by what the stafff was playing over their sound system, and was 'audio-brainwashed' into buying the cd...This time it was 'Moon Pix' by Cat Power. I'd always enjoyed her songs when I'd heard them at parties o...
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