- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: Neko Case
Album: Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Label: Anti-
Playtime: 52:09 min
Genre: Rock
URL: http://www.myspace.com/nekocase
Rip date: 2007-11-05
Street date: 2007-11-06
Size: 74.51 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 187 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Neko Case hasn't had much need to prove her credentials as a major artist
since making her solo debut with 1997's The Virginian, but she's been
refining her skills in the recording studio on each subsequent release, and
with 2006's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood she's fashioned an album that can
cautiously be called a masterpiece. As always, Case's voice, an instrument of
impressive strength, grace, and expressive power, is the star of this show,
and she's never sounded better than she does here, but what sets this apart
from her other fine work is her growth as a songwriter and producer. Case
wrote or co-wrote all 12 tracks on Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, and her
tales of failed friendship, faith stretched to the breaking point, and love
that causes as much ache as comfort are subtle and expressionistic but deeply
evocative, conjuring images and feelings that linger long after the album has
ended, especially the spectral "Star Witness," the moody yet romantic "That
Teenage Feeling" and "Hold on, Hold On," and the darkly beautiful closer,
"The Needle Has Landed." And Case and her co-producer, Darryl Neudorf, have
assembled a superb cast of musicians to accompany these songs, among them
members of the Sadies and Calexico as well as Garth Hudson of the Band, Howe
Gelb from Giant Sand, and Kelly Hogan. Together they've sculpted a dozen
elegant sonic landscapes that are beautiful and richly detailed while meshing
with the moody textures of the songs in their open space and unwillingness to
crowd either the singer or the other players. The cumulative effect mirrors
both the beauty and the sadness that lurks within the human heart, and Fox
Confessor Brings the Flood is a rich, mature, and deeply satisfying piece of
music that deserves and demands attention -- if this isn't Album of the Year
material, it's hard to say what is. [In 2007, Anti- reissued Fox Confessor
Brings the Flood with a bonus CD of both previously released material and
unreleased demos from Neko's back-catalog.]
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Margaret Vs. Pauline ( 2:52)
02. Star Witness ( 5:16)
03. Hold On, Hold On ( 2:46)
04. A Widow's Toast ( 1:36)
05. That Teenage Feeling ( 2:42)
06. Fox Confessor Brings The Flood ( 2:42)
07. John Saw That Number ( 4:06)
08. Dirty Knife ( 3:18)
09. Lion's Jaws ( 2:28)
10. Maybe Sparrow ( 2:37)
11. At Last ( 1:35)
12. The Needle Has Landed ( 3:45)
01. Set Out Running ( 3:00)
02. Furnace Room Lullaby ( 2:53)
03. Deep Red Bells ( 4:01)
04. I Wish I Was the Moon ( 3:33)
05. Behind the House (Demo) ( 2:59)
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