Wanderer

Wanderer is Cat Power’s tenth album—her first album after 2012’s Sun, released on October 5, 2018. The release marks Chan Marshall’s departure from Matador Records, who’ve released every studio album from the musician since What Would the Community Think in 1996.

In an interview with the New York Times Marshall shared that the label wanted her to leave behind the electronic sounds of Sun in attempt to sound more like Adele.

In addition to being her first with Domino, Wanderer is also the first album that Marshall produced with her current manager Andy Slater. He echoed Marshall’s statements about Matador, saying that the label told him Wanderer wasn’t good enough to release. Even after Matador rejected the album, Marshall confirmed that she didn’t change any of the music. She did, however, add a song called “Woman“. In a statement about the album she said the record reflects:

The course my life has taken in this journey – going from town to town, with my guitar, telling my tale; with reverence to the people who did this generations before me.
Folk singers, blues singers, and everything in between – they were all wanderers, and I am lucky to be among them.