Music
08 Oct 21

Cat Power shares cover of The Pogues' 'A Pair Of Brown Eyes' from upcoming album

Covers is out early next year. Photo: Mario Sorrenti.

Cat Power has shared renditions of The Pogues' 'A Pair Of Brown Eyes' and Frank Ocean's 'Bad Religion', ahead of the release of her upcoming album of cover songs, out January 14 via Domino.

Covers – the acclaimed American singer-songwriter's third album of reinterpretations of songs by classic and contemporary artists – also finds her covering tracks by Iggy Pop, Lana Del Rey, Bob Seger, Nick Cave, Jackson Browne, Kitty Wells, The Replacements, Billie Holiday and more.

Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, released her tenth studio album, Wanderer, in 2018 – which featured a collaboration with Lana Del Rey, and a cover of Rihanna's 'Stay'. More recently, she contributed to the soundtrack of Sean Penn's feature film Flag Day, alongside Eddie Vedder, his daughter Olivia Vedder, and Glen Hansard.

'A Pair Of Brown Eyes' isn't the first Irish track that Cat has covered. Her 2008 EP, Dark End Of The Street, included a rendition of 'The Auld Triangle', retitled 'Ye Auld Triangle'.

Her cover of The Pogues' classic has already earned the praise of the band's Spider Stacy.

"This has got its hooks in me and it won't let go," he wrote on Twitter. "Gorgeous interpretation."

Listen to her covers of 'A Pair Of Brown Eyes' and 'Bad Religion' below:

Covers is available to pre-order here.

Tracklist:

1 Bad Religion (Frank Ocean)
2 Unhate (Cat Power - Chan Marshall)
3 Pa Pa Power (Dead Man’s Bones)
4 White Mustang (Lana Del Rey)
5 A Pair of Brown Eyes (The Pogues)
6 Against the Wind (Bob Seger)
7 Endless Sea (Iggy Pop)
8 These Days (Jackson Browne)
9 It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells)
10 I Had a Dream Joe (Nick Cave)
11 Here Comes a Regular (The Replacements)
12 I’ll Be Seeing You (Billie Holiday)