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Track Listings
| 1. American Flag |
| 2. He Turns Down |
| 3. No Sense |
| 4. Say |
| 5. Metal Heart |
| 6. Back Of Your Head |
| 7. Moonshiner |
| 8. You May Know Him |
| 9. Colors And The Kids |
| 10. Cross Bones Style |
| 11. Peking Saint |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
Singer Chan Marshall takes intimacy to a new level with the eerily lovely song cycle of Moon Pix. The narrative revolves around a nightmare figure who beckons toward a location that sounds rather like H-E-double hockey sticks. The starkness of this ghost story is mirrored in the austerity of the atmospheric music. Joined by Jim White and Mick Turner of the Australian slow-rock band the Dirty Three, Marshall uses spare guitar, flute, and piano arrangements to create the sounds of the last singer left on a postapocalyptic landscape. As Marshall sings in "Say," "If you're looking for something easy, you might as well give it up," and that lyric is the best description of this difficult and brilliant album. --Lois Maffeo
Product Description
Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, has created an album, Moon Pix, that somehow manages to be both complex and difficult as well as stark and spacious. It's an interesting contradiction mirrored in Marshall's vocal and lyrical talents; her voice soars and croons, sometimes trading melodies with a wandering flute line, while her lyrics are powerful, inscrutable, and fiercely intimate. Two of the Dirty Three evoke a subtle instrumental landscape upon which she wanders, a place less haunting than haunted; specters of lost friends, lost loves, and unrealized dreams abound. There is beauty here, but the kind of beauty found in the crushed shell of a bird's egg or a cemetery in fall. Not an easy listen, but a necessary one. --Tod Nelson
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Hauntingly beautiful yet stark...
April 1 2004
Format:Audio CD
I'm a fan of Cat Power since hearing "You Are Free" at an SO's place... This one I like almost as much... "No Sense" is my favorite track on this one, although I like them all each in their own unique way... To me Cat Power has staying power...
As well as I've read in an article that Perry Farrell enjoys Cat Power's music, so who knows, maybe Cat Power will be in the next Lollapalooza festival... Here's to hoping... - Savannah Skye...
As well as I've read in an article that Perry Farrell enjoys Cat Power's music, so who knows, maybe Cat Power will be in the next Lollapalooza festival... Here's to hoping... - Savannah Skye...
The best album....if you want to sleep!
July 14 2003
Format:Audio CD
I've always thought that I'd only enjoy a completely new band to me, through hearing the album while I'm sleeping...Well, Moon Pix is fantastic, 'cause it makes me fall asleep right away and I wake up feeling refreshed...songs like "Metal Heart", "Back Of Your Head" and "You May Know Him" are like hot milk to me!
When I stopped to listen to the cd, paying attention to the lyrics and melodies...it kinda let me down...but still the distinct voice of Chan Marshall makes me fell like someone was putting a child to sleep...which is a beautiful feeling!
When I stopped to listen to the cd, paying attention to the lyrics and melodies...it kinda let me down...but still the distinct voice of Chan Marshall makes me fell like someone was putting a child to sleep...which is a beautiful feeling!
Haunting
April 4 2003
Format:Audio CD
When I asked a friend to give me something tranquil to listen to while I study, she gave me "Moon Pix" on tape. Stilling and haunting, it proved entirely wrong for my purposes, being just the kind of music that makes you gaze off into the distance for long moments, forgetting where you are...Not that I minded.
Spooky and off-kilter, this album is maudlin the best way. Chan Marshall (is that her name?) adopts a kind of child-visionary persona, delivering an idiosyncratic mixture of surreal, direct, and insinuating lyrics that are enough to rend your heart the more you hear them. Her voice is husky yet pure at the same time, and she's at her best with minimal instrumentation, just stark vocals and a muffled guitar, sounding like the saddest, most hopeful person on earth singing to herself in an empty room. If you know what I mean...
Nonetheless, I can understand why a lot of people might fail to see the weird beauty in this album, especially upon first listen, and it's very difficult to know whether you're the kind of wistful oddball this will appeal to unless you try it for yourself. Take a gamble and see.
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Most recent customer reviews
People give out 5 stars too easily
I didn't love this album when I first heard it. I thought it was "nice"... "beautiful" even... but that was all. That was in the summer of 2001. Read more
Published on Mar 6 2003 by D. Lisoway
One of the best
This is one of my all time favorite CD's. ITs music ranges from mellow and soft to a slight beat that moves you. A great purchase.
Published on Mar 3 2003
Stark, personal, powerful
What makes Moon Pix (and Cat Power) so wonderful is that I can feel a connection, I am FORCED to feel a connection with Shawn Marshall and that is afterall the most important goal... Read more
Published on Feb 2 2003
Album Flows Like A Stream
This is a masterpiece. Haunting and mesmerizing. It is a testament to the proposition that musicianship is about the sound and mood created as much as technical prowess. Read more
Published on Jan 23 2003 by Candlewax
sadcore?
SADCORE?! what moron came up with that term? sheesh. lovely music here, whatever you want to call it.
Published on Nov 27 2002 by William E. May
This CD is INCREDIBLY overrated!!!!!
I heard so many great things about this CD. People said it was one of the best sadcore albums ever. That is ridiculous! Read more
Published on Nov 15 2002 by happyapple
What was I thinking?
Maybe I'll have to give this another few listens, but my first impression is that this is mostly unmelodious (is that a word?) garbage. I hope I grow to like it more. Read more
Published on Mar 19 2002
such a black night....
shhhhh....listen.
in the latest hours of the night, earliest hours of the morning...she is there. in the blackest of deserts... Read more
in the latest hours of the night, earliest hours of the morning...she is there. in the blackest of deserts... Read more
Published on Nov 18 2001 by Rob
for the newcomers
Cat Power is a unique band. Chan Marshall is in her own way unique. Some might describe that as a bad thing at times, but at other times Chan can really surprise you. Read more
Published on May 12 2001 by "deserted_indifference"
some people seem to love it...
but for me....? *Yawnnnnn*
there are better singer/songwriters out there.
Published on May 4 2001 by Reality Soldier
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