Cat Power‘s Chan Marshall returned after a five-year absence on Wednesday morning (Aug. 15) with a sultry new single “Woman,” featuring backing vocals from Lana Del Rey.
The song — which will appear on the singer’s Wanderer album (Oct. 5) — is a classic Cat Power mid-tempo sizzler, opening with a gentle acoustic guitar strum and funky keyboard vamp under the lines, “If you know people who know me/You might want them to speak/To tell you about the girl or the woman they know/More than you think you know about me.”
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The song’s visual, directed by Greg Hunt, finds the singer and her band performing the entrancing track on a rooftop at dusk and in a vividly lit recording studio, with Del Rey’s vocals doubling Marshall’s, though the singer does not appear in the visual. “I’m a woman of my word/Now you have heard/My word’s the only thing I truly need,” they sing in unison, repeating the word “woman” as the chorus rises to a peak before sliding back into the shuffling verses.
Wanderer, Marshall’s 10th studio album, is the follow-up to 2012’s Sun. “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,” Marshall said in a statement announcing the effort in July. “Folk singers, blues singers, and everything in between. They were all wanderers, and I am lucky to be among them.” The album is available for pre-order here.
Check out the “Woman” video below, as well as the Wanderer track listing and Cat Power’s tour dates.
Tracklist:
1 “Wanderer”
2 “In Your Face”
3 “You Get”
4 “Woman” (Feat. Lana Del Rey)
5 “Horizon”
6 “Stay”
7 “Black”
8 “Robbin Hood”
9 “Nothing Really Matters”
10 “Me Voy”
11 “Wanderer / Exit”
Tour dates:
Sept. 15 — Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest
Sept. 25 — Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre *
Sept. 27 — Philadelphia, PA @ Mann Center for the Performing Arts *
Sept. 28 — Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion *
Sept. 30 — New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium *
Oct. 5 — Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
Oct. 6 — South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
Oct. 8 — Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
Oct. 9 — Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
Oct. 11 — Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater
Oct. 12 — Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall
Oct. 13 — Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
Oct. 23 — London, UK @ Roundhouse
Oct. 25 — Paris, FR @ Le Trianon
Oct. 26 — Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
Oct. 28 — Berlin, GE @ Astra
Oct. 29 — Zurich, SW @ X-Tra
Oct. 30 — Lausanne, SW @ Les Docks
Nov. 1 — Barcelona, SP @ Razzamatazz
Nov. 2 — Madrid, SP @ Circo Price
Nov. 5 — Bologna, IT @ Estragon
Nov. 6– Milan, IT @ Alcatraz
Nov. 17 — Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Nov. 18 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
Nov. 21 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
Nov. 23 — Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory OC
Nov. 24 — San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
Nov. 25 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
Nov. 27 — Austin, TX @ Emo’s
Nov. 28 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Nov. 29 — Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
Dec. 19 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
* w/ the National