{"product_id":"cat-power-you-are-free-lp","title":"Cat Power - You Are Free LP ( VINYL )","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\"\u003eYou Are Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e arrives nearly five years from her last album of original material, and everything, yet nothing, has changed about \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/chan-marshall-mn0000844398\" class=\"name-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/chan-marshall-mn0000844398\"\u003eChan Marshall\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's music. The album's title is as much a statement as it is a challenge, a command to free one's self from the hurt and pain of the past, or to at least find a way of making peace with it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\" class=\"name-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\"\u003eMarshall\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e seems to do both on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\"\u003eYou Are Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, a collection of songs about finding freedom and peace wherever she can. Initially, the album seems more diffuse than \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/moon-pix-mw0000600797\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/moon-pix-mw0000600797\"\u003eMoon Pix\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, as it spans tense rockers, blues, folk, and singer\/songwritery piano ballads, but it gradually reveals itself as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\" class=\"name-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\"\u003eMarshall\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's most mature and thematically focused work yet. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\"\u003eYou Are Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e opens with a stunning trio of songs that encompass most of the moods and sounds she explores later in the album. On \"I Don't Blame You,\" the first of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\"\u003eYou Are Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's many spare, piano-driven moments, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\" class=\"name-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\"\u003eMarshall\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e paints a portrait of a tormented musician, her voice so full of sympathy that she may well be singing a reconciliation to a previous incarnation of herself. The brisk, buzzing intensity of \"Free,\" however, offers liberation in the form of rock \u0026amp; roll's immediate, poetic nonsense: \"Don't be in love with the autograph\/Just be in love when you love that song all night long.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\"\u003eYou Are Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's first two songs address musicians and making music directly; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\" class=\"name-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\"\u003eMarshall\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a famously willful, volatile artist, and the increasing gaps between her albums (not to mention her unpredictable live performances) suggest that being a musician isn't the easiest thing for her to do, even if it's a necessary one. She addresses the struggle to do the right, but difficult, thing on \"Good Woman,\" a near-spiritual breakup song where, backed by a children's choir and fiddles, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\" class=\"name-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\"\u003eMarshall\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e explains that she needs to be a good woman with -- or more likely, without -- her bad man. Aside from being a lovely song, it's also a departure; earlier in her career the song might have just focused on the conflict instead of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\" class=\"name-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\"\u003eMarshall\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's gently strong resolution to it. This gentle but resolute strength runs through most of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\"\u003eYou Are Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's best moments, such as \"He War\" and especially \"Names,\" a terrifyingly matter-of-fact recollection of child abuse and lost friends that says more in its resigned sorrow than a histrionic tirade would. As the album progresses, it moves toward the spare, affecting ballads that give her later work a strange timelessness; listening to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\"\u003eYou Are Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e gives the impression of stripping away layers to get to the essence of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\" class=\"name-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/marshall-mn0000844398\"\u003eMarshall\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's music. In some ways, the quiet last half of this album is more demanding than the angsty noise of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/dear-sir-mw0000187270\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/dear-sir-mw0000187270\"\u003eDear Sir\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/myra-lee-mw0000183732\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/myra-lee-mw0000183732\"\u003eMyra Lee\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, but hearing her find continually creative interpretations of minor keys, plaintive pianos, and folky guitars is well worth the attention it takes, whether it's the dead-of-night eroticism of her cover of Michael Hurley's \"Werewolf,\" the pretty yet eerie longing of \"Fool,\" or the prairie romance of \"Half of You.\" Every \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/cat-power-mn0000803009\" class=\"name-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/cat-power-mn0000803009\"\u003eCat Power\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e album takes at least a few listens to fully reveal itself; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\" class=\"album-link\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/you-are-free-mw0000020297\"\u003eYou Are Free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e may take awhile longer than expected to unfold, but once it does, its excellence is undeniable.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"05- Matador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56731909783925,"sku":"744861042709","price":4.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8300\/2485\/files\/1989541.jpg?v=1770888974","url":"https:\/\/warmvibevinyls.com\/products\/cat-power-you-are-free-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}