Cat Power - Cherokee

What this video is

Released in September 2012 alongside Cat Power's ninth studio album Sun, the Cherokee video arrives at a cultural inflection point where indie artists were increasingly self-directing their visual output, enabled by accessible HD digital production. The video taps directly into the peak of zombie-genre saturation in mainstream American media — The Walking Dead had premiered in 2010 and was at its early cultural…

Why it matters

Cherokee represents a pivotal moment in Cat Power's discography — the album opener for her most electronic, self-produced work — and the video's self-directed, post-apocalyptic visual grammar embeds it firmly within the 2012 indie-electro auteur movement. It exemplifies how singer-songwriters of…

The director

Chan Marshall (born January 21, 1972, Atlanta, GA) is the artist known as Cat Power. A recording artist since 1993, she released her debut full-length Dear Sir in 1995. Marshall is known for albums including Moon Pix (1998), The Greatest (2006), and Jukebox…