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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nAfter years of recording covers, Sun\u00a0<\/em>brings her original tunes to light \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Long before Cat Power recorded Sun<\/em>\u2014her first album of original material in six years\u2014she knew there would be an album with that title. \u201cBefore I did The Covers Record<\/em>, I was on tour with these songs that I wrote and some cover songs, playing this Passion of Joan of Arc<\/em> movie by Carl Dreyer,\u201d says Chan Marshall, the woman behind Cat Power, of her 2000 release and tour. \u201cI decided, \u2018I\u2019m going to do a covers record real quick. I\u2019ll do these other songs later. I\u2019ll call it Sun<\/em> and I\u2019ll do it later.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Marshall, 40, began talking about Sun<\/em> again in 2006 with the intention of releasing the album in 2008, the same year she released a second album of covers called Jukebox<\/em>. Sun<\/em> was further delayed when Marshall moved to Los Angeles with then-boyfriend, actor Giovanni Ribisi, and found herself writing at the Boat studio. \u201cI usually write in my bedroom or apartment. I needed my privacy. Psychologically I couldn\u2019t do it with people around.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the new songwriting experience didn\u2019t pan out. \u201cI played it for a friend of mine, a big-brother type, and he\u2019s like, \u2018Chan, it\u2019s so depressing. It sounds like old Cat Power.\u2019 That really broke my heart, and I felt like a failure.\u201d<\/p>\n Marshall took eight months off from music before giving herself a second chance. This time, she fiddled with the in-house synthesizers that inform much of the album. She often left the tape rolling while improvising on the keyboards, immersing herself further in a process she dislikes. \u201cRecording has always been extremely difficult and painful, like going into surgery with no anesthesia,\u201d says Marshall. \u201cI never trusted it because I\u2019m not an academic type, and there are many different formulas when you\u2019re in a studio that are \u2026 I\u2019d say extremely mathematical.\u201d<\/p>\n Marshall decided to record and produce the record herself with only the assistance of a sound engineer and a guest vocal from Iggy Pop. She asked the punk legend to join her on \u201cNothin but Time\u201d in tribute to the song\u2019s subject. \u201cI wrote that song for my boyfriend-at-the-time\u2019s daughter. She was getting bullied. She was really in love with the Ziggy Stardust record, and because of the \u201cheroes\u201d line in the song, I asked Iggy Pop and David Bowie. David said no, but Iggy said yes.\u201d While encouraging someone else to be strong, Marshall took her own bold step away from her stylistic comfort zone. Sun<\/em> now bares little resemblance to its original form. \u201cIt\u2019s not a guitar-driven record,\u201d she explains. \u201cI\u2019m thrown for a loop.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n CAT POWER After years of recording covers, Sun\u00a0brings her original tunes to light \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Long before Cat Power recorded Sun\u2014her first album of original material in six years\u2014she knew there would be an album with that title. \u201cBefore I did The Covers Record, I was on tour with these songs that I wrote and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[4890,4886,4891,4538,4889,10156,4887,4888,4892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7440,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions\/7440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"