We’ve heard two tracks from Sun, Cat Power’s forthcoming album, and both “Ruin” and “Cherokee” embrace pieces of pop music that we might have never expected to cross Chan Marshall’s radar: textured synths, polished programmed beats, Auto-Tune. On his remix of “Cherok...

Last month, Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, released her first single since 2006, “Ruin.” The track comes from her forthcoming Matador long-player, Sun, which is Marshall’s first album of entirely original material since 2006′s The Greatest. In her 17 years of recording music as Cat Power, Marshall has evolv...

Last week we heard “Ruin,” a strikingly upbeat number from Cat Power’s new album Sun. Today, NPR’s All Songs Considered debuted another track, the album opener “Cherokee.” It’s a percussive, uptempo beauty that bounces Chan Marshall’s vocals off of each other. Hear i...

Chan Marshall hasn’t released a new Cat Power album since the 2008 covers collection Jukebox, but she’ll return to the game in September with the new LP Sun, an album that she recorded around the same time that she went through a bad breakup with the actor Giovanni Ribisi. The first single is “Ruin,” and [...

The follow up to 2008's 'Jukebox' is set for a UK release on September 10