Though the word Sun seems to point backward, to the southern soul/blues of Cat Power's last studio album, The Greatest, it has nothing to do with Sun Studios. Rather, the name comes from the album's second track, an electronic swoon that acts as a mission statement: "Here is the day/ We are free, you and me, and we can finally run." In the six years since The Greatest, Power has faced bankruptcy and the end of a relationship, but she's lived to fight another day, and this album is what she terms a "rebirth". It is assuredly that. Guitars have been swapped for synths, beats are crisp and she's evidently on the road to sobriety and emotional recovery. Inevitably, there's rawness and relapses (the R&B chant 3,6,9 was written in the throes of a hangover, after a night of failing to drink the pain away), but she's found a kind of peace. Dueting with fellow survivor Iggy Pop on Nothin But Time, she sings, as if to herself: "It's up to you" – a sentiment that underlies the rest of this moving record.