Do you really not know who cat power is? I haven't listened to her since I was a wee lad, but Moon Pix is worth checking out for some soft indie ish. Where was she on the album?
The guest spots do nothing for me, I would have preferred trent reznor not be on the album of anything. It sounds gimmicky and he's only there for 20 seconds.
A lot of El-Ps subject matter involves his struggles to fit into routine life, but tracks like Drive and League of Extraordinary Nobodies does a good job of delivering that with a deep sense of paranoia and frustration. It's more self-reflective, I don't know if it's neccessarilly darker though. I think a lot of it is tongue in cheek, the way the crew laughs at the end of habeas corpus
"she was dead, just how i wanted her" or something, and then they burst out into laughter. I think it's genuine, but may be slightly pandering to an emotionally vulnerable adolescent fanbase.
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