![]() Moon Pix is undoubtedly that album for Cat Power. The problem with extricating these complicated ideas-who is making my music? Is this person feeling the feelings I feel?-is that sometimes an artist makes something dangerously potent, a piece of work with a mood so thick that it demands an explanation. For her most avid listeners, this was the moment when Chan Marshall’s life and Cat Power’s music swirled together most hypnotically, most dangerously, when one threatened to consume the other. ![]() When Moon Pix came out in 1998, the fevered hush of possessive adoration surrounding Chan Marshall was at its peak: This was the era of shows stopping and starting, of her faltering voice and mid-song apologies, of breathless reports of said interruptions showing up in the music press, as if Marshall were a consumptive 19th-century heroine. This is the kind of myth that music fans cling to make their treasured albums seem more magical, and sometimes we can use these tales to terrorize their teller. ![]()
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