Sunday, September 17, 2006

100 favourite songs: #47: "Sea Of Love" - Cat Power

A voice with which to fall in love (or is it just me who’s always drawn to the sad ones?). Fragile, almost lilting, yet oh so strong, this is a cover, but none the less affecting for it. - 18/4/04

I’ve called “Good Woman” the archetypal Cat Power song, but “Sea Of Love” is the song that you’d get, I think, if you were to distil her music down to its barest, most essential elements, so that all you were left with was a voice, a guitar, a plaintive cry in the wilderness.