Cat Power covers "Pa Pa Power" by Dead Man's Bones

01 November 2021, 13:11 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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Cat Power has released a cover of "Pa Pa Power" by Dead Man's Bones as the latest taster of her upcoming Covers album.

After announcing the album last month with her versions of Frank Ocean's "Bad Religion" and The Pogues' "A Pair Of Brown Eyes", Cat Power has unveiled her take on "Pa Pa Power" by Dead Man's Bones.

Chan Marshall said of the song choice, "I started playing this solo in 2012 (originally more dissonant and trance-y), when the Occupy Wall street protests were going on. Occupy was bunkering down and saying, "This shit's fucking fucked up." And helping citizens be a voice in their local government. They got a lot of good things done, but the American media killed the movement. I felt like this song was relative to that. The American media has always penalized any sort of social progressiveness and is always the first to express conservative rhetoric against something that is beneficial to the nation. I’d open with this song on the 2013 China tour. "Burn the streets, burn the cars"."

Covers is the third covers album from Cat Power, following 2008's Jukebox and The Covers Record from 2000, and will include Marshall's versions of songs by Nick Cave, Iggy Pop, Jackson Browne, Billie Holiday and more.

The album will follow Cat Power's 2018 album Wanderer.

Cat Power's cover of "Pa Pa Power" by Dead Man's Bones is out now. Her Covers album will follow on 14 January 2022 via Domino, and is available to pre-order now.