Neko Case

yep

Personally, yes -- it never clicked w/me. But I'm open to the idea that I should revisit it!

it clicked w/me but i just prefer the new one. it's very hard to choose favorite, though. or to really place the albums in much of an order.

i think her most underrated one these days might be The Tigers Have Spoken, that's a killer.

Blacklisted->Tigers->Fox Confessor is one of those astonishing trios of albums, I just value them so highly. I try not to get "locked into" a certain era of an artist's work, and I have given her subsequent albums a fair shake... but for whatever reason, those three have remained the untouchable totem for me.

Lukewarm take blacklisted ->tigers->fox->cyclone is as good as Led Zeppelin 1-4

You can go Funrace room instead of tigers if you want to separate live/studio but

middle cyclone has her best lyrics imo, that’s what puts it over the top for me

haven’t spent much time with the new one but the wordiness Alfred points out is really bugging me, she’s less focused on concision it seems and that was one of her greatest strengths, three or four albums in a row of perfect miniatures. also Bad Luck sounds like lol Cults

idk what made Middle Cyclone attractive to me on first listen is that she got down to business in the first three songs: her immediate hooks, that huge voice, the perfect instrumental accompaniment.

i got issues with middle cyclone's pacing. otherwise fantastic

I'm halfway through a "Middle Cyclone" re-listen... I feel like a bum insisting on a negative assessment, but these songs do not hold a candle (IMO) to those on the preceding albums(!!) (To each their own, tho!!)

"The Pharaohs" is a really nice song, in a classic Neko mode (almost sounds like pastiche of earlier songs).

“i’m an animal” is easily my favorite song of hers

"This Tornado Loves You"!

Love the Nilsson cover too.

"The Pharaohs" is too spacey for me.

Ends w/half-hour of crickets! Forgot about that...

The Nilsson cover ("Don't Forget Me") is great, I agree

“Red Tide” is real nice, and I love the opening of “Fever.”

The last album is good but kind of hurts to listen to in places, there’s something so desolate about most of the songs. “Ragtime” is a great closer though.

Forgot Magpie to the Morning

"He laughed under his breath because you thought that you could outrun SOOOORRROOOOOWWWW"

I do wish more of her recent uptempo songs featured the Sadies.

Yeah, I like a lot of the songs on the new one but some of the instrumentals have that anono-studio-band vibe she managed to avoid for a long time

My only problem with Fox Confessor is that it makes me feel let down listening to her other records. They just don't have that same magic for me.

She's on Conan tonight.

Thx for the tip!

> lol Cults
> anono-studio-band vibe

Just getting started with this record but the shifting production styles in bothersome, and makes a song like Bad Luck a total drag. The wordiness keeps drawing me deeper though, and I'm blown away by much of the writing. She mentions extinction a few times, yet finds a away to grapple with big themes though small specific images. It's really effective and making this more intriguing for me than the last two. The record seems political in a non-literal way.

yeah, I don't hear the "wordiness" but I suspect it's the kind of thing I'd like anyway

I feel like I did Alfred a disservice, he wrote a perceptive and subtle post which I abbreviated as “wordiness,” which is a terrible word.

Listened to this a bunch yesterday and it’s still not opening up for me, I miss her oblique lyrical approach, the unexpected imagery. I’ll keep listening for her voice if nothing else which is still incredible but I don’t see this one becoming a favorite.

There are lots of unexpected conceits in this album, I think.

Not sure why I held off on giving this a focused listen. It am doing so now - I think it’s great. I wasn’t crazy about “Bad Luck” or “Curse of the I-5 Corridor” in advance of the album, but they are both beginning to win me over. The duet toward the end is the only track that’s not connecting for me. Perhaps that will change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSMEcxelkA

She and Conan looked like brother & sister standing next to each other, lol

I think “Bad Luck” (at least in that performance) seemed to go on a bit too long, given its “pop” simplicity and the degree of repetition in its songwriting – though the bridge really stood out for me.

Just finished first play of Hell-On. Of the tracks that weren't trailed in advance, "Dirty Diamond", "Winnie" and "Pitch or Honey" were the stand-outs for me. I'll probably go back to the LP at year-end but not before.

I met her today! At record store signing thing, but still.

Cool! (She retweeted me once, which I thought was awesome enuff... LOL)

Pitch or Honey might be my fav.

Mmmm, OK (NSFW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=t3lvpnuo57M

lmao at Lanegan's faces

o_O

lollin'

i'm at work – what's NSFW about this?!

Lots of cartoon genitalia, very silly

ok i have to see this.

it's really something!

too short!

well the video

is that a corn dog? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7FCawDvUDc)

hello

i really like 'the slow wonder' by ac newman and 'twin cinema' by the new pornographers but im not sure which neko case records to get into or where else to go from here! recommendations please

You won't go wrong with 'Fox Confessor Brings the Flood', she's in terrific voice and I'd say it's her strongest collection of songs.

Blacklisted -> Middle Cyclone (including the nifty live album The Tigers Have Spoken) is a pretty much all-killer run, with plenty of great stuff scattered around before and after

fox confessor definitely

tyvm! slsk job later.

3rding Fox Confessor

+ here's a latenight TV performance that came out to promote the record:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2l7ZKJS47o

I would start w/Blacklisted, but it sounds like the only thing at stake is the OP’s slsk file space.

whoops forgot to link:

https://nekocaseofficial.bandcamp.com/album/fox-confessor-brings-the-flood-bonus-track-version