You Are Free

Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.105) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003" Rolling Stone (3/6/03, p.69) - 4 stars out of 5 - "FREE may be her most beautiful album....There are gaunt rock songs and ramshackle ballads, all painted with bold, sure strokes..." Spin (3/03, pp.119-20) - 8 out of 10 - "Marshall has never sounded this in control of her demons..." Spin (p.108) - "[S]he sings in her sultry Georgian accent." Entertainment Weekly (2/21/03, p.150) - "[Marshall's] voice remains a dusky hush, turning songs by John Lee Hooker and cult folkie Michael Hurley into spooky whispers..." - Rating: B+ Uncut (01/04, pp.84-7) - Ranked #40 in Uncut's "Albums Of The Year 2003" Uncut (3/03, p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Everything Marshall touches has a hypnotic power that's eerily unsettling..." The Wire (01/04, p.38) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year [2003]" The Wire (2/03, p.59) - "The more upbeat songs of YOU ARE FREE have a simmering energy in keeping with the current vogue for refried garage rock..." CMJ (12/29/03, p.5) - Ranked #5 in CMJ's "Top 10 of 2003" - "[This album finds Chan Marshall] settling into the role of her generation's Carole King..." Billboard (p.36) - "[T]he album is still a work of stunning beauty." Mojo (Publisher) (01/01/04, p.58) - Ranked #19 in Mojo's "The Best of 2003" Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "YOU ARE FREE is the most stylistically varied Cat Power album....The sense of fragile lives on the verge of collapse is never far from the surface..."

哀しみや凛とした視線を深い慈愛に満ちた声と詞で紡ぐキャット・パワーことショーン・マーシャルの新作。カントリー、フォークなどのルーツを基調にギター、ピアノなどで綴るミニマルなスタイルに加え、デイヴ・グロールがこっそり参加したロックな曲もあり。エディ・ヴェダーがコーラスを添えるカントリー・バラッド“Good Woman”の厳しくもそっと包みこまれるような優しさにグッときた。すがりつきたい。
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