Not to belabor my previous post, but it occured to me after posting that the newest Cat Power is the perfect case in point regarding the idiocy of a January release. The Greatest came out in January 2006 and got perfectly good reviews, though it didn't really make much of a lasting dent in many people's memories, apparently. Just think, if it had come out in the spring, maybe that season might not have felt so bleak. It easily would have stood out as the best of the season. But instead it came out in this limbo period when people were still making their Best of '05 lists. Likewise, if it had come out a few months earlier, it might have made it onto all of those lists.
Now her record label is going to the trouble of re-releasing the album just nine months after releasing the first time around. There's nothing different other than the packaging (and the lower, "please, please buy this record" price); Matador is just trying to get some more mileage out of an album that does, in fact, deserve more mileage. If they had released it at a sensible time, they probably wouldn't have had to bother with all this added hoopla.
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