The violent throes of depression

Cat Power, de retour début octobre avec un dixième album, en interview dans le New York Times

When Chan Marshall, the singer and songwriter best known as Cat Power, got pregnant in 2014, she considered drastically changing her life. For nearly a quarter of a century she had made the road her home, fighting the never-ending war of a career as an independent musician, exposing her emotional turmoil, night after night, for supportive but demanding audiences.

Suddenly, she was having a child, and it felt like winning the lottery. “I’ll just go to Australia and I’ll start over,” she thought. “Who doesn’t want a simple life?” She even found a whiskey bar there, more than 10,000 miles away, that agreed to hire her as a bartender.

That vision of quiet isolation and anonymity mirrored one she’d had as a younger person in the violent throes of depression: moving to a tiny desert town, changing her name to Beth, wearing dresses, having short hair. She had dreamed of eight children — four biological and four adopted — plus animals and a garden. At her lowest, “that was my little switch,” she said, “my fantasy.”

Cat Power Has a Lot to Be Proud Of. Now She Knows That.

(Joe Coscarelli, in the New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/arts/music/cat-power-wanderer.html

Chan et son fils, sur la pochette du single "Wanderer"