100 favourite songs: #43: "Nude As The News" - Cat Power

It’s something special that the enigmatic Chan’s got going on with this one — call it a kind of skeletal percussive hauntedness, though it has a slink to it, too. “Nude As The News” is all about the vibes — the rustle, vibration and thud of guitar, drum and voice, shaking through to a rhythm that only Marshall can hear, and while it’s all totally inscrutable to me, I’m hooked anew every time as the song goes along and then won completely over when she gets to the final “he’s related to you, he’s related to you, he’s related to you…” part and the song winds unaccountably and brilliantly to its ending. I’ve not heard anything else quite like it.