'The new record compiles two original tunes plus ten interpretations of songs by artists as diverse as Frank Ocean, the Pogues, Billie Holiday, and Bob Seger.' | Shannon Nico Shreibak
Marshall challenges herself by synthesizing disparate eras and genres into a cohesive body of work, mining moments of drama from each track. Her bustling translation of “Pa Pa Power,” a ghostly anthem by Dead Man’s Bones , is a career high-water mark. She transforms Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ 1992 track “I Had a Dream Joe” from a macabre screed
into a reverberant incantation, and she pares down Iggy Pop’s sorrowful, synth-powered late-70s cut “Endless Sea” until it’s a slinky missive.featured a new version of “In This Hole,” from her 1996 albumThe Greatest . The original is an anemic acoustic track, but Marshall transforms the marrow-deep self-hatred of its verses into a triumphant reclamation of self, chanting “I hate myself and I want to die” until the words ring hollow and she sounds like she’s defeated her demons. Cover songs are often denigrated as exercises of pomp and laziness, and in less capable hands they’re often little more than set fillers or B sides.
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