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Cat Power

A recent Pitchfork essay on Moon Pix—the 1998 album that Cat Power wrote in a state of feverish terror while living in a barn in Prosperity, South Carolina—described her work as “dangerously potent,” and that feels true of her whole body of work. Listening to Moon Pix and the six crushing albums that have followed it, you feel as if you’re on the brink of catching something: some spiritual rapture, some beautiful horror, something that, for better or worse, implicates you. On last year’sWanderer, which she released after a six-year hiatus between albums, her husky voice tangles with bluesy electronics in a way that feels slippery and incantatory as snake handling. Cat Power rarely tours, so this stop in Chapel Hill—with opener Arsun—isn’t one to miss.—Sarah Edwards