Cat Power Vows To "Leave America" In Bizarre Instagram Rant
No judgments or thoughts, really, but yes, Cat Power's Chan Marshall did post a truly bizarre rant on the official Cat Power Instagram account yesterday, promising to "leave America" due to the "powers that be" "[raping] this earth with its lies, protection of wealth, and vicious slayings."
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The post ends by tagging a large handful of bands, artists, celebrities and news outlets who I'm guessing are meant to come along? Who knows. (Guessing Malcom X can't make the trip.) Read the entire post below and drop thoughts in the comments below if you've got 'em.
"THANK YOU FOR THE HOPE IN YOUR SYM...
Years before Glen Hansard stepped outside of The Frames, the only guy-girl Irish folk duo on anyone's mind was Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan. Released 10 years ago this past February, Rice's debut album O was an inescapable indie hit in the U.S. the following year, powered largely by "The Blower's Daughter" but cemented by the record's devastatingly frail songwriting and lush, minimal sound: the mildest pluck of a guitar… the barely-there sweep of a string section… all billowing gently beneath Rice and Hannigan's voices, always threatening to crumble beneath the monumental emotion pouring out of each lyric. My freshman year of college, you couldn't find a dorm room without this album playing softly in the background… but you know what? It's a remarkably gorgeously album that still holds up to repeat listens today.
Lisa Hannigan and Damien Rice
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"Delicate"
"Why do you sing Hallelujah / if it means nothing to you / Why do you sing with me at all?" Builds from the faintest acoustic guitar strums into a majestic peak of violins, brushed drums and Rice's pained pleas. Still one of the best make-out songs I've ever heard in my life.
"Volcano"
A gently swaggering crawl of guitars and strings, all sauntering seductive come-ons and violin bows. Lisa Hannigan backs up the chorus and takes over lead on the second verse, pleading, "Don't drag my love around / volcanoes melt me down…" with even more lusty fire than her male counterpart. "What I really need is what makes me bleed," he later counters, "And like a new disease, she's still too young to treat…"
"The Blower's Daughter"
"And so it is…" Who doesn't still let out an instant heavy sigh whenever this song comes on? Those slow-burn verses… the bubbling hum of that aching cello… and how it all spills out into that chilling "I can't take my eyes off of you…" chorus. There's not a whole lot I can even say about it… this one gets inside your rib cage and does some damage.
"Cannonball"
Love the shimmering twinkle of acoustic guitars, ringing like deep forest wind chimes beneath Rice's nostalgic heartache ("Still a little bit of your taste in my mouth / Still a little bit of you laced with my doubt…") Another serious shiver-inducer.
"Older Chests"
"Older chests reveal themselves like a crack in a wall," Rice muses over a the warm, airy pluck of his guitar, "Starting small and grow in time." Reaches almost Elliott Smith levels of folk intimacy and then, just when you feel like it might overwhelm you, a majestic wave of strings rolls through to sweep away the ache.
"Amie"
"Nothing unusual, nothing strange / Close to nothing at all…" Can't get enough of that heartbreakingly beautiful chamber orchestra arrangement and how it weaves gracefully beneath and between Rice's boisterous guitar strums and yearning couplets.
"Cheers Darlin'"
It's decided. From here on in, I refuse to consume alcohol at any establishment that doesn't have a lonely oboe player cowering off in the corner…
"Cold Water"
Probably my favorite song off the album, even to this day. I just can't get over how delicate that upright piano sounds, or how positively explosive it sounds without ever making anything more than the humblest of rackets. And that low men's choir section? It sounds silly the first time around. By the twentieth, it absolutely breaks your heart.
"I Remember"
A fragile, wistful bit of folk guitar business with Miss Hannigan on lead vocals. "I want you here," she pleads, "Nothing is taking me down…" A nice quiet before the storm of…
"Eskimo"
…the album's literally operatic climax: another tender folk ballad that blossoms into a cinematic gushing of strings, drums and Fat Lady vocals. Judging from this song along, I'd say that an Eskimo friend is quite possibly the most majestic, cinematic type of friend imaginable.
"Prague" (Hidden Track)
If the opera doesn't scare you away, there's a somber bit of vocal/guitar downtrodden-ness around the 7:07 mark…
"Silent Night" (Hidden Track)
…and a baffling reworking of everyone's favorite sad Christmas carol. Because hey, why not? Sigh… this album, this album, this album.
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