Sun (studio album) by Cat Power

Sun by Cat Power
Year: 2012
Release date: 2012-09-04
Overall rank: 3,772nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 119 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2012 (70th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (664th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,772nd)
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Cat Power bestography

Sun is ranked 4th best out of 13 albums by Cat Power on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Cat Power is You Are Free which is ranked number 1414 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,225.

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Sun track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 119 votes)
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01/03/2025 19:05 EyeKanFly  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 7,33365/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.

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65/100
From 06/16/2019 13:02
not that great, but i do like the insane song about "sodie arabia".
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From 03/18/2016 14:45
This my first Cat Power and I like it a lot. Energetic and -- yes -- sunny.
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From 02/10/2013 14:53
I admit, I'm disappointed in BEA. Our top 100 of 2012 is pitiful. We have about 40 albums in it that aren't even worth listening to, yet albums like this aren't even in the top 200 of the year... It's surprising. This barely misses my top 50 of the year, but I'd definitely recommend it still.
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From 01/02/2013 18:07
On first listen, this sounded like a feist album. This is quite unlike any cat power album i remember. Previously, she used to languish in introspection over organic alt/folk/rock. She's uptempo and beat-driven with chorus hooks aplenty throughout the album that is more slickly produced than usual for her. (Is that auto-tune i hear? And what's with the techno-like effects in "silent warning"?) This album could very likely cause cat power diehards to cry "sell out!". But unlike liz phair, i don't sense calculation here. Instead, it feels like a letting loose, and i sure like it.
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