Pitchfork: Cat Power: "Who Knows Where The Time Goes" [Track Review]

Cat Power
“Who Knows Where The Time Goes”
[2006]

Next to Fairport Convention, who had their own version of this track, Chan Marshall sounds less like she's recasting the original in her image and more like she just doesn't know the song. She eschews Denny's wistful and content ruminations on the order of things, instead focusing on the line about fickle friends and turning the song's titular question into a portentous moan. Thankfully, Marshall's piano counteracts this slanted lyrical revision. The sound of the piano notes fading into silence carries more weight than any of Marshall's over-emotive whispers. Maybe Chan knows this song after all.

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