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9.0
107554
9.0 |
All Music
As tender as it is uncompromising, Wanderer is exactly the album Marshall needed to make at this point in her career and life. It's some of her most essential music, in both senses of the word
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8.7
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8.7 |
Paste Magazine
Cat Power has stumbled at times during her lengthy and storied career, but on Wanderer, she gracefully lands on all four feet
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
This is simply another great Cat Power record
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8.0
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8.0 |
The FT
Sparse guitar and piano arrangements make for an unadorned setting for the artist’s warm, languid voice
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8.0
107555
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Wanderer feels at once like a homecoming and yet also a fresh start
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Observer
After her record label rejected her album, singer-songwriter Chan Marshall found a new home for her singular sound
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8.0
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8.0 |
DIY
An essential compass for finding your way through the dark
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Independent
Six years after the release of her last LP 'Sun', which saw her veer from soul into electronic territory, her 10th album demonstrates both a newfound sense of calm, and strength
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
Haunted, stark, and impossibly beautiful songwriting from Chan Marshall
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Chan Marshall’s tenth album is a haunting thing of great beauty
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
The swagger of Marshall's lyrics indicate a musician luxuriating in her maturity. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
Uncut
The set has both strength and a lean, lustrous beauty. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
Mojo
There's no danger of Wanderer outstaying its welcome, but while it's a brilliant return, it wouldn't be quite right too claim it as a triumph. Not because of the quality of these songs but because Wanderer is a record that know the cost of living and the price of losing all too well. Print edition only
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8.0
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NME
On her bluesy 10th album as Cat Power, Chan Marshall honours herself and her own creativity
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8.0
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8.0 |
Crack
Cat Power’s tenth album maintains Chan Marshall’s status as a stateswoman of great American songwriting
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8.0
107504
8.0 |
musicOMH
Most of all though, Wanderer is an album about developing your own identity in an ever-changing, often troubling world. Arguably more than ever before, Cat Power has achieved that goal here
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Chan Marshall possesses the authority of a seasoned blueswoman on her excellent new LP
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7.5
108143
7.5 |
Under The Radar
A record with gentleness and vulnerability in abundance, but it's carefully crafted
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7.4
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7.4 |
Gig Soup
‘Wanderer’ is not Cat Power‘s masterpiece, but it cements her status as one of the great singer-songwriters of our time
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7.4
107506
7.4 |
Pitchfork
On her first album in six years, Chan Marshall roams the many moods of her songwriting with a careful, soft-spoken power
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Cat Power's ability to centralize her self-worth and artistic integrity imbues Wanderer with a sanguine and empowering assurance
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7.0
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7.0 |
Slant Magazine
Time and again, Marshall has been reductively pegged as a gloomy singer-songwriter struggling with substance abuse and mental illness. But while her vulnerability here lends itself to melancholy, it’s also triumphant and resolute
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Quietus
Chan Marshall, singer, songwriter, producer, comes back and kicks off (quietly)
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7.0
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7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Even if the territory is somewhat familiar, she’s never made an album quite like this before
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7.0
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7.0 |
Exclaim
Artists like Cat Power have all been wanderers at some point, but she is the one in control here
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7.0
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7.0 |
American Songwriter
How much you’ll learn about her wandering journey is unclear, but Marshall’s deeply introspective approach is worth spending time with to unravel the artist’s dense wandering spirit
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7.0
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7.0 |
Earbuddy
After a six-year absence, Cat Power wanders back into our lives with a simple, solid release
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7.0
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7.0 |
The 405
Cat Power has a veritable walk-in closet of skeletons to draw on. But along with heavy-hitting content and fine penmanship, it’s the deft touch with which Chan Marshal curates the songs that really elevates Wanderer
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6.5
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6.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Marshall sounds as though she has finally arrived at a comfortable place
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Irish Times
Here, a self-assured Cat Power has finally reached her destination
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6.0
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6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Wanderer may occasionally feel a little too thin, melodically, but it continues to reaffirm that no one quite writes songs of experience like Chan Marshall
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6.0
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6.0 |
No Ripcord
Some of Wanderer is, frankly, quite dull, even if her irresolute darkness can still engulf your senses upon closer inspection
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5.8
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5.8 |
A.V. Club
Wanderer isn’t lost, exactly, but could use more concrete emotional landmarks to keep it on a focused path
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5.0
107482
5.0 |
The Music
The fact that nothing here will grab you even after repeated listens means that the lengthy, meditative nature of these sadcore tunes does little to justify their own inaccessibility
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