Article: Cat power: at times she has seemed like the second coming of Bob Dylan--at others. Fit for scratching post. And no matter how far Chan Marshall falls, she always seem to land on her feet.(Interview)

There's a quietness, a slowness in the music made by Chan Marshall--who performs alone or with others as Cat Power. You can feel her feel herself into a song, into the idea or the impulse behind the song, so that the song itself--whether hers or that of someone else-becomes a kind of scrim, a veil held over an emotion or an event that will never come completely into focus. That's where the always-building suspense in Marshall's music lies--because whatever lurks behind that curtain might come into focus--and it's where the drama is, when Marshall breaks out, chanting, yelling, whispering, blowing up her own tempos like a kid hiding firecrackers in her jeans.

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