What Would the Community Think

by Cat Power

What Would the Community Think cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 September 1996
  • Label: Matador
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 47:46
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded closely with Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, 'What Would the Community Think' is an intensely raw, beautifully anxious documentation of Chan Marshall's songwriting. The album utilizes incredibly minimalistic indie rock and somber slowcore arrangements to create a dark, lonely, and profoundly melancholic nocturnal atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, minimalistic, hushed, unpolished, female-vocals, acoustic, confessional, minimal, unadorned

Tracklist

  1. In This Hole (4:59)
  2. Good Clean Fun (4:46)
  3. What Would the Community Think (4:30)
  4. Nude As the News (4:23)
  5. They Tell Me (2:53)
  6. Taking People (3:25)
  7. The Fate of the Human Carbine (2:58)
  8. King Rides By (4:03)
  9. Bathysphere (3:01)
  10. Water & Air (4:43)
  11. Enough (4:25)
  12. The Coat Is Always On (3:34)

Credits

  • Cat Power - primary artist
  • Steve Shelley - drums, xylophone
  • Tim Foljahn - guitar
  • Chan Marshall - guitar, piano, effects [big muff], written-by
  • Doug Easley - steel guitar [pedal]
  • Davis McCain - synthesizer [moog]
  • Peter Jefferies - written-by
  • Bill Callahan - written-by

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