i got issues with middle cyclone's pacing. otherwise fantastic
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
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!!)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
"The Pharaohs" is a really nice song, in a classic Neko mode (almost sounds like pastiche of earlier songs).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
“i’m an animal” is easily my favorite song of hers
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
"This Tornado Loves You"!
Love the Nilsson cover too.
"The Pharaohs" is too spacey for me.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
Ends w/half-hour of crickets! Forgot about that...
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
The Nilsson cover ("Don't Forget Me") is great, I agree
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
“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.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
Forgot Magpie to the Morning
"He laughed under his breath because you thought that you could outrun SOOOORRROOOOOWWWW"
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
I do wish more of her recent uptempo songs featured the Sadies.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
She's on Conan tonight.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
Thx for the tip!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
> 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.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 7 June 2018 11:00 (six years ago) link
yeah, I don't hear the "wordiness" but I suspect it's the kind of thing I'd like anyway
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― sciatica, Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
There are lots of unexpected conceits in this album, I think.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 8 June 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSMEcxelkA
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 June 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
She and Conan looked like brother & sister standing next to each other, lolI 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.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 8 June 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 10 June 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
I met her today! At record store signing thing, but still.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 June 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
Cool! (She retweeted me once, which I thought was awesome enuff... LOL)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
Pitch or Honey might be my fav.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 10 June 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
Mmmm, OK (NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=t3lvpnuo57M
― nickn, Thursday, 2 August 2018 06:26 (six years ago) link
lmao at Lanegan's faces
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 2 August 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link
o_O
― niels, Thursday, 2 August 2018 12:25 (six years ago) link
lollin'
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
i'm at work – what's NSFW about this?!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
Lots of cartoon genitalia, very silly
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
ok i have to see this.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
it's really something!
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
too short!
well the video
is that a corn dog? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7FCawDvUDc)
― Ludo, Thursday, 2 August 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
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
― maelin, Saturday, 13 March 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
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.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 13 March 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
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
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 13 March 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
fox confessor definitely
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 13 March 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
tyvm! slsk job later.
― maelin, Saturday, 13 March 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
3rding Fox Confessor
+ here's a latenight TV performance that came out to promote the record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2l7ZKJS47o
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 13 March 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
I would start w/Blacklisted, but it sounds like the only thing at stake is the OP’s slsk file space.
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
whoops forgot to link:
https://nekocaseofficial.bandcamp.com/album/fox-confessor-brings-the-flood-bonus-track-version
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
Furnace Room Lullaby has always been my favorite by far but I know that's a minority opinion.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
"South Tacoma Way" is a stone cold classic at the very least
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
Seconding Furnace Room Lullaby. At least there are 2 of us in the minority.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 13 March 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
I really love "Thrice All American," but for some reason I haven't listened to either album all the way through so can't compare them.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 13 March 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
Two of my friends were fans of her as the drummer in Maow, when she started singing and recording country music they were nonplussed.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 13 March 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link
lol - doesn’t get hipper than that
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Sunday, 14 March 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
Middle CycloneFurnace Room LullabyBlacklistedFox Confessor—The Worse Things GetHell-OnThe Virginian
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 14 March 2021 04:15 (three years ago) link