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Chan Marshall, known by her stage name Cat Power, announced on her Instagram that she has postponed her European tour due to illness. The singer-songwriter suffers from angioedema, a condition that causes rapid swelling of body tissue, and a series of recent attacks have left her unable to continue performing for the time being.
If we could adopt any cat in the world, it would be the one that meows along to forgotten ’90s alt bands:
One of indie rock’s most obsessed-over songwriters is back, and she has brought her travel journal with her.
Chan Marshall, known to the world as Cat Power, will be dropping a new album, Sun, on September 4. It’s her first full-length outing since 2008′s Jukebox and first batch of original material since 2006′s lauded The Greatest.
According to her label, Matador Records, Marshall recorded these songs all over the world, including at a studio she built in Malibu, California — and “Ruin,” the album’s first single, has a definite breezy ’70s SoCal quality to it.
Of course, few of those ’70s songs referenced hunger problems in Calcutta (mostly they were about having sex with your bandmate’s wife and trying to find more cocaine).
Give “Ruin” a spin below. READ FULL STORY »
