Cat Power has released the video for the track, “Manhattan”, the second from her latest album, Sun. It’s been six years after her last album of original material, Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, directed the video and wrote, played, recorded and produced the entirety of SUN by herself, a statement of complete control that is echoed in the songs’ themes.
Marshall calls SUN “a rebirth,” which is exactly what this confident, ambitious, charismatic record feels like. “Moon Pix was about extreme isolation and survival in the crazy struggle,” she says. “Sun is don’t look back, pick up, and go confidently into your own future, to personal power and fulfillment.” The album was recorded over the past three years in Malibu (in a studio she built herself), Silver Lake (in the Dust Brothers’ studio The Boat), Miami (South Beach Studios), and Paris (Motorbass), where she mixed with Zdar in spring 2012.
Cat Power will start touring in May:
May 18 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Circo Voador
May 19 Recife, Brazil / Espaço Catamarã
May 21 São Paulo, Brazil / Cine Joia
May 25 Santiago, Chile / Teatro La Cúpula
May 27 Montevideo, Uruguay / La Trastienda
May 31 Nelsonville, OH / Nelsonville Music Festival
June 1 – 2 Houston, TX / Free Press Summer Festival
June 13 – 16 Manchester, TN / Bonnaroo
June 20 Vienna, VA / Wolf Trap Filene Center
June 22 Duisburg, Germany / Traumziet Festival
June 23 Berlin, Germany / Tempodrom
June 25 London, UK / Roundhouse
June 26 Brussels, BE / AB
June 27 Zurich, CH / Volkshaus
June 28 Munich, DE / Theater Fabrik
June 30 Somerset, UK / Glastonbury
July 2 Amsterdam, NL / Paradiso
July 3 Hamburg, DE / Grosse Freiheit
July 17-18 Paris, FR / Olympia
July 19 Suffolk, UK / Lattitude
July 20 Ponznan, PL / Malta Festival
August 2-4 Chicago, IL / Lollapalooza
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