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* {{Sampling}}: "American Flag" makes notable use of the reversed drum machine beat from "Paul Revere" by the Music/BeastieBoys.

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* {{Sampling}}: "American Flag" makes notable use of the reversed drum machine beat from "Paul Revere" by the Music/BeastieBoys.
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''Moon Pix'' is the fourth album by Music/CatPower, a musical project headed by Chan Marshall. Shrouded in legend since it's release, a many of its songs were written in one night after a hallucinatory nightmare Marshall had experienced while staying at a farmhouse in South Carolina. She had intended to leave the music industry after her previous record, ''What Would The Community Think'', but would continue to record after the releasing ''Moon Pix''.

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''Moon Pix'' is the fourth album by Music/CatPower, a musical project headed by Chan Marshall. Shrouded in legend since it's its release, a many of its songs were written in one night after a hallucinatory nightmare Marshall had experienced while staying at a farmhouse in South Carolina. She had intended to leave the music industry after her previous record, ''What Would The Community Think'', but would continue to record after the releasing ''Moon Pix''.

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* {{Blues}}: The record maintains a sizeable amount of influence from the genre, what with Chan's emotional vocal delivery and dour electric guitar playing.

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* {{Blues}}: The record maintains a sizeable amount of influence from the genre, what with Chan's emotional emotive vocal delivery and dour electric guitar playing.playing taking cues from the genre.


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''Moon Pix'' is the fourth album by Music/CatPower, a musical project headed by Chan Marshall. Shrouded in legend since it's release, a many of its songs were written in one night after a hallucinatory nightmare Marshall had experienced while staying at a farmhouse in South Carolina. She had intended to leave music after her previous record, ''What Would The Community Think'', but would continue to record after the releasing ''Moon Pix''.

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\n\n->''Sew your fortunes on a string\\
And hold them up to light\\
Blue smoke will take\\
A very violent flight\\
And you will be changed and everything\\
And you will be\\
In a very sad, sad zoo''
-->- "Metal Heart"


''Moon Pix'' is the fourth album by Music/CatPower, a musical project headed by Chan Marshall. Shrouded in legend since it's release, a many of its songs were written in one night after a hallucinatory nightmare Marshall had experienced while staying at a farmhouse in South Carolina. She had intended to leave the music industry after her previous record, ''What Would The Community Think'', but would continue to record after the releasing ''Moon Pix''.

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!!Tracklist
# "American Flag" (3:30)
# "He Turns Down" (5:39)
# "No Sense" (4:50)
# "Say" (3:24)
# "Metal Heart" (4:02)
# "Back of Your Head" (3:43)
# "Moonshiner" (4:50)
# "You May Know Him" (2:46)
# "Colors and the Kids" (6:35)
# "Cross Bones Style" (4:32)
# "Peking Saint" (2:28)
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* {{Blues}}: The record maintains a sizeable amount of influence from the genre, what with Chan's emotional delivery and electric guitar playing.
* BrokenRecord: "Say", with the lyric "[[TropeTelegraphing Learn to say the same thing]]" being repeated at the beginning of each verse.

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* {{Blues}}: The record maintains a sizeable amount of influence from the genre, what with Chan's emotional vocal delivery and dour electric guitar playing.
* BrokenRecord: "Say", with the lyric "[[TropeTelegraphing Learn "Learn to say the same thing]]" thing" being repeated at the beginning of each verse.


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* EpicRocking: "Colors and the Kids" and "He Turns Down".
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/28/cat-power-on-moon-pix-im-alive-today-because-of-those-songs Chan has said]] that "Cross Bones Style" was inspired by a trip she made to South Africa where she found children who slept in trees because their parents were murdered.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/28/cat-power-on-moon-pix-im-alive-today-because-of-those-songs Chan has said]] that "Cross Bones Style" was inspired by a trip she made to South Africa where she found children who slept in trees because their parents were murdered.murdered.
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* SouthernGothic: What with the bluesy textures, references to Christianity and the album cover featuring Chan, a woman raised in the Southern United States, being surrounded by flowers that grow in that region. This record can be considered to be featured with that aesthetic.

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* SouthernGothic: What with the bluesy textures, references to Christianity and the album cover featuring Chan, a woman raised in the Southern United States, being surrounded by flowers that grow in that region. This record can be considered to be featured with apart of that aesthetic.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/28/cat-power-on-moon-pix-im-alive-today-because-of-those-songs Chan has said]] that "Cross Bones Style" was inspired by a trip she made to South Africa where she found two children slept in trees because their parents were murdered.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/28/cat-power-on-moon-pix-im-alive-today-because-of-those-songs Chan has said]] that "Cross Bones Style" was inspired by a trip she made to South Africa where she found two children who slept in trees because their parents were murdered.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Never give up no, never give up / If you're looking for something easy / You might as well give it up'']]


''Moon Pix'' is the fourth album by Music/CatPower, a musical project headed by Chan Marshall. Shrouded in legend since it's release, a many of its songs were written in one night after a hallucinatory nightmare Marshall had experienced while staying at a farmhouse in South Carolina. She had intended to leave music after her previous record, ''What Would The Community Think'', but would continue to record after the releasing ''Moon Pix''.

Once it was released, it would near uniamous acclaim, being considered a classic within the indie rock community and a landmark record in the {{Slowcore}} genre.

!!''How selfish of you, to believe in the meaning of all the bad troping''
* {{Blues}}: The record maintains a sizeable amount of influence from the genre, what with Chan's emotional delivery and electric guitar playing.
* BrokenRecord: "Say", with the lyric "[[TropeTelegraphing Learn to say the same thing]]" being repeated at the beginning of each verse.
* CoverVersion: Of "Moonshiner", a traditional folk song.
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: "He Turns Down" is about this. Chan even saying that:
-->''"It's about God saying, "No, you’re not good enough."''
* OneWomanWail: Oh, so much on this record. It almost veers into PerishingAltRockVoice because of it.
* {{Sampling}}: "American Flag" makes notable use of the reversed drum machine beat from "Paul Revere" by the Music/BeastieBoys.
* ShoutOut:
** "Colors and the Kids" supposedly contains a reference to Will Oldham with the lyric "old yellow hair".
** "Metal Heart" references the church hymn "Amazing Grace" mid-way through the song.
** The album cover itself receives one in the music video for Music/TheShins' "New Slang".
* SouthernGothic: What with the bluesy textures, references to Christianity and the album cover featuring Chan, a woman raised in the Southern United States, being surrounded by flowers that grow in that region. This record can be considered to be featured with that aesthetic.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/28/cat-power-on-moon-pix-im-alive-today-because-of-those-songs Chan has said]] that "Cross Bones Style" was inspired by a trip she made to South Africa where she found two children slept in trees because their parents were murdered.

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