★★★★★
The vibrant horn sections of The Greatest and Jukebox have been cast aside on Sun, in favor of an increasingly more electronic approach. Nobody's likely to confuse this for being EDM, but Philippe Zdar of French house outfit Cassius lends some production flourishes that inject an otherwise warm and organic collection with neon flickers...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Enduring and erratic usually don't work together. The two actually compete. That is unless, of course, you're Cat Power (née Chan Marshall). The critics' darling has sustained a 17-year career by releasing mostly decent albums while simultaneously delivering mostly terrible live performances that have often devolved into false starts and shambling mutterings. No matter. Cat Power released the hip hop and dance-infused (that's right) Sun six years after her soul-and-blues affair The Greatest...
- www.ink19.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
It's been six years since Chan Marshall's last non-covers album, the superb, Memphis soul-backed The Greatest. In that time it's reported she's been through a major break-up, had dalliances with drink and some none-too lightweight artistic crisis. Sun, however, finds her in an optimistic, can-do mood, playing all the instruments on an album which beguiles - and even confuses - at every turn...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Chan Marshall's ninth album experiments with a variety of different genres and then buffs them up to create some of her cleanest, most pop-oriented music, though it's often at the expense of the lyrics. 3, 6, 9 gets by on its attitude, so you can forgive the clunky chorus "3, 6, 9/You drink wine/Monkey on your back/You feel just fine." The bulk of Real Life is a shopping list of people who are of one profession, but wish they were doing another...
- www.beat.com.au
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Cat Power Sun (Matador Records) Cat Power Sun Six years ago the New York Times ran a video in which Chan Marshall (Cat Power) talked about being sober. She explained how her insecurities had led to alcoholism, which, in turn, led to her depression and ultimate hospitalisation...
- www.thevine.com.au
2012-10-15
★★★★★
The idea of a "comeback" has always made me a little uneasy. When this label gets slapped onto an album, probably by some uncreative press release, it's usually ill-fitting and based solely on the quantity of years since a previous release. So with Chan Marshall releasing her ninth studio album, Sun (the first since 2006's The Greatest to be composed entirely of original material), I'm still wary about labeling this as her comeback...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-10-04
★★★★★
So here's Sun, in which an uncharacteristically swaggering Chan Marshall makes a tortured six year gestation sound effortless. If the Cat Power backstory so far has touched on some of the darker sides of human nature, on dependency, abuse and despair, Sun is the light at the end of one hell of a tunnel, a record brimming with an assurance and playfulness that, if a little dorky in places, is about as cathartic as pop gets...
- thequietus.com
2012-09-24
★★★★★
The once-troubled singer returns. Has she finally got her shit together? In art as in life, Chan Marshall is a rolling stone, moving from one extreme to another, from one place to the next. She's been hospitalised after alcohol and drug abuse; been a muse to Karl Lagerfeld and Wong Kar-wai, and been photographed semi-nude by Richard Avedon. This, her ninth album was recorded in L.A...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2012-09-17
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Burning Bright On her first release of entirely original material in six years, Georgia native Cat Power (née Charlyn Marshall) leaps back into the scene with an album that barrels boldly ahead. Sun is at once new, striking and familiar. While the album delves into electronics and rock 'n' roll, it retains the intense emotion and careful songwriting Cat Power mastered on The Greatest and You Are Free...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-09-13
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