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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Called the female Will Oldham by sexist critics and ridiculously underappreciated, CP effortlessly pack tonnes of pathos into every song without ever overdoing it--they never stray into AOR or gross sentiment. Not as good as the more recent "Moonpix" but still great.
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46 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Love is not loneliness
28 Mar 2003
Format:Audio CD
Of course all albums worth reviewing are five stars, and every "best of" is so personal as to be meaningless. Cat Power is so insular as to be beyond review. You either feel her pain, or you don't. If you have ever seen Cat Power live, you have been treated to either the most moving or most embarrasing performance of your life-- sometimes both in the same night. Much the same with this album. This is Chan at her most raw, most intimate, most compelling and most distancing. It is almost funny to watch the progression of her career, to see her perform with "famous musicians" and to see her on Letterman. She is ultimately an outsider artist, creating something not quite "art" but rather a daguerrotype of her soul.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
haunting
2 Aug 1999
Format:Audio CD
Chan Marshall can do haunting like no one else...both aggressive and lonely, her songs sound to me like Kim Gordon meets Kristin Hersh...but admittedly it is unfair to pigeonhole her unique expressiveness. When I first acquired this album (after falling in love with Moon Pix, which is also beautiful but does not have the range of emotion or music that WWtCT does) I spent hours late into the night making art while listening to this cd..."Water and Air" is one of the most aching, chilling songs I have ever heard. There is something creepy underlying WWtCT that makes this album stand away from CatPower's other work - her lyrics do not rest easily.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
atmosphere beyond paranoia for once
6 Dec 2001
Format:Audio CD
there was a time once a few summers ago when i found myself in a room in Tennessee and was more or less reduced to staying there - no reason for it, other than that it wasn't home - listening to this album after having spent the season washing dishes and hearing "Moon Pix" and "The Covers Record," i had a few moments, or one continuous moment i guess, in which it became clear that Chan Marshall's songs were the soundtrack to every empty room i'd ever been in - tension and veiled purity on this album last beyond what's worth talking about - imagine the sound of someone wanting to stay inside, married to the experience of another's equilibrium - and music for the frequencies in-between - the only songwriter next to Will Oldham, Robert Pollard, and whoever else you might listen to - like a fusion of Son House, Roy Orbison, and Sonic Youth - and none of the above.
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