Cat Power- What Would The Community Think Vinyl Record
Chan Marshall's first album for Matador, What Would the Community Think arrived in 1996 and marked a major step forward. Recorded with Doug Easley at his studio in Memphis, it pairs her soft, haunting voice and spare guitar with Easley's pedal steel and the sympathetic drumming of Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley.
Marshall sounds more self-assured here than on her earlier records, investing real fire in songs like the brooding Water and Air and the feedback-laced title track. Nude as the News became an early calling card, while King Rides By is an unvarnished love song with quiet emotional weight. She also makes two covers her own: Peter Jefferies' Fate of the Human Carbine and Smog's Bathysphere.
A defining record of nineties lo-fi and slowcore, and an essential starting point for anyone exploring Cat Power's catalogue. A beautiful addition to any indie collection.
Side A
1. In This Hole
2. Good Clean Fun
3. What Would the Community Think
4. Nude as the News
5. They Tell Me
6. Taking People
Side B
1. Fate of the Human Carbine
2. King Rides By
3. Bathysphere
4. Water and Air
5. Enough
6. The Coat Is Always On
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Cat Power- What Would The Community Think Vinyl Record
