Bleep

Hark, the return of Cat Power! The one born Charlyn Marshall hits double-figures for studio LPs with Wanderer, her first full-length since 2012’s Sun. These eleven tracks find Marshall really settle into her role as a veteran singer-songwriter. Leaning largely on piano and guitar for the instrumentals, tunes such as ‘Robbin Hood’ and ‘Black’ see Marshall passing on some sage life advice from her new vantage-point of middle-age. It helps that her voice, which was already pretty husky to begin with, has now morphed into a breathy rumble equal-parts Gillian Welch, Feist and Leonard Cohen. Young pretender and former Cat Power tourmate Lana Del Rey guests on ‘Woman’.