Sound it Out # 29: Cat Power - "Ruin"

Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) has finished her first album of new material since 2006’s The Greatest. It’s called SUN and it’s out on September 4. Chan played every bit of music on the record, and it comes on the heels of what sounds like a brutal breakup with Giovanni Ribisi. We'll have to wait and see how much of that pain ends up on display in the rest of the songs. The first single is called "Ruin" and you can grab it below. It's perky by Cat Power standards, with a nifty keyboard bit that complements Chan’s haunting voice. Her signature fierceness is there, and the song rocks. I can’t wait to hear the rest of the record.

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Amy worked in the record business at Enigma, Elektra, Virgin and Sub Pop before she got sucked into the technology vortex. She co-founded the Backwards Beekeepers, a chemical-free urban beekeeping collective in Los Angeles. She runs digital marketing for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Hollywood Bowl.

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blueelm

Well I’m looking forward to it.
dbergen

TIP: Don’t date crazy scientologists!
Lexicat

“…out on September 4. Chan played every…”
I see what you did there.
- http://antler.tumblr.com/ Amy Seidenwurm
  
  That took me 2 hours to understand…mostly because Chan is pronounced “Shawn”. I take full credit, though.
  - niktemadur
    
    So you didn’t do what he saw there.
emschelle

Saw her a few years back and it was genuinely the oddest show I’ve ever been to. She took her cordless less mic and wandered through the crowd, caressing people’s faces as she worked her way back behind the stage and sang easily three quarters of the show out of sight, only coming out for a bit of piano-ing here and there. Beautiful, pained, smoky voice. Loved it.
- http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers
  
  Sounds precious.
  - niktemadur
    
    Chan’s first words upon meeting Bob Dylan face-to-face?
    “I love you”. Which is quite fearless and very cool, IMO.
    - jimh
      
      I love her.
ROSSINDETROIT

I’ll be there on day 1. The Greatest is one of my most-played records of the decade and I really like this song. Please Chan, don’t pull a Liz Phair on us.
http://profile.yahoo.com/OMHO6ER5QJE3SIZ35VAXIRCLYM Stephan

Chan has yet to find the right guy … which is ME!
colincapybara

Fantastic song, but did anyone else think, “is this a Chocolate Rain cover?”, during the first 20 seconds or so?

Cat Power- "Ruin" (MP3)

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