Moon Pix

Moon Pix
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 22, 1998
RecordedNovember 7, 1996
January 1998
StudioSing Sing Studio in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genre
Length46:19
LabelMatador
ProducerMatt Voigt
Cat Power chronology
What Would the Community Think
(1996)
Moon Pix
(1998)
The Covers Record
(2000)

Moon Pix is the fourth album by Cat Power, the stage name and eponymous band of American singer-songwriter, Chan Marshall. It was released in September 1998 on Matador Records.

Much of the album was written in a single night, following a hallucinatory nightmare Marshall experienced while staying at a farmhouse in South Carolina. Prior to that, Marshall had intended to retire from music. The album was recorded in Melbourne, Australia with Mick Turner and Jim White, of the Australian instrumental band Dirty Three, on guitar and drums, respectively.

Released to modest acclaim, the album has since been described as Cat Power's "magnum opus"[2] and "one of the Nineties great singer/songwriter triumphs."[3] In 2022, it was ranked at number 66 in Pitchfork's "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s" list.[4]

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  4. ^ Kemp, Sophie (22 September 2022). "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 14 October 2022.