Cat Black - Marc Bolan

Cat Black is one more in the long succession of albums that dip into the 1981 You Scare Me to Death collection, created by former Bolan manager Simon Napier-Bell from a clutch of 25-year-old demos, and granted fresh life by some recent overdubbing. Controversial at the time -- the unaccompanied Bolan was of far more interest than the latter day sessionmen -- it was nevertheless a skillfully arranged job, updating a desperately primitive sound for then-modern ears and, as an album in its own right, the performances are at least listenable. What they are not is a representation of what Bolan himself might have done with the same songs, had he ever chosen to. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide