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    CAT POWER

    Dec 09, 2021 4 minutes
    By Alastair McKay

    Covers

    DOMINO

    8/10

    COVER can be a disguise or a source of warmth. Or it can be someone else’s song. For Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, all definitions apply. Ask her to explain the process of choosing which songs to record on her third album of covers and she will respond with a rush of consciousness that mirrors the way the record was made.

    Some of the songs evolved through live performance, sometimes as reactions to Marshall’s own compositions. She took to singing Frank Ocean’s “Bad Religion” as an antidote to performing “In Your Face” (from 2018’s ) on tour, seeing it as a way of not getting pulled down by the weight of her own composition. Clearly, the line” rather than “”, a tweak that rewires one of the song’s oscillations between self-pity and prejudice.

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