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Cat Power - Jukebox
| Adequacy | | The rewarding aspect about a Cat Power covers album is exactly what makes the songs so appealing. Though they still remain covers, the manner and method that Cat Power delivers them in is as if they are her originals. She changes most of the tempos, alters the keys, sings them in a different style and makes everything — right down to the lyrics — all her own. And on Jukebox, they are ultimately transformed into something amazing and that’s certainly a compliment considering that these covers were already amazing on their own....full text |
| | Rollingstone | | Chan Marshall is not the new Dylan, or even the old Dylan. But when she takes on Bobby Zimmerman on Jukebox, a sequel to 2000's The Covers Record, her approach is Dylanesque: She refashions material from other artists and makes it seem like it's been hers all along. Stripping "I Believe in You" (a song about faith, from Slow Train Coming) down to a single electric guitar and a shuffle, Marshall belts out a newly confident swagger as if she's breaking in a new pair of fancy red shoes. A year after Marshall suffered a breakdown at a Miami hospital and went on to play the best shows of her career, she deserves a survival anthem like this one: "I walk out on my own/A thousand miles from home/But I don't feel alone/'Cause I believe in you." That "you" she's addressing? Maybe it's herself....full text |
| | Uncut | Wong Kar-Wai, who cast Chan Marshall opposite Jude Law in his American movie, My Blueberry Nights, had a line about the singer's appeal: "If Charles Bukowski and Jane Birkin had a child, it would be Cat Power". Which is to say that she flits between sleaze and innocence, and that the two qualities bleed into each other to the point where they are indistinguishable.
A shrinking violet who has modelled for Karl Lagerfeld, inhabits a contradiction. In essence, this exhibitionist with stage fright is a soul singer. ...full text |
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