Cat Power/Lift To Experience: The Garage, London
Nick Hasted, Uncut, November 2001
IT STARTS WITH guitars screaming, and ends in a whisper. The sadistic social experiment of putting Lift To Experience's apocalyptic Texan assault second on the bill to Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, the most fragile, stagefright-prone performer in pop, works a treat.
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