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Album Review | ‘Moon Pix’ by Cat Power
Chan Marshall hypnotizes listeners as we fight against the forces of disillusionment and dread surrounding us.
Out of all Chan Marshall’s albums, Moon Pix has the most haunting mythos. Coming off the release of her prior album, What Would the Community Think?, Marshall uprooted herself on a whim to South Carolina, aiming to ditch music altogether in exchange for potentially teaching and doing art as a hobby. The muses had other choices for her, as she would awake one night with a hallucinatory nightmare, spurred to pour her demons out in song.
Chan would divulge to The Telegraph more about the mental turmoil she was grappling with over a decade later:
“I was by myself for three months in the country, surrounded by fields. One morning I had a vision, woke up and could feel something beyond the trees outside my window. Then I heard a voice: ‘Chan, come and meet me outside and all the past will be forgotten.’ I remember sitting up in bed and saying ‘No!’ And when I said that, I felt as if something was coming fast, straight from under the earth, these dark spirits. I know that sounds completely insane. So I sprung out of bed and rushed into every room [mimes shutting windows in a panic]. Then they came, thousands of them…
