Neko Case announces London show at The Forum
Neko Case has announced a headline show at London’s Forum on 12 December, tickets go on sale today at 10am here: https://birdonthewire.ticketabc.com/events/neko-c/
The new album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You is released on 2 September via ANTI, her first since 2009’s Grammy nominated Middle Cyclone which reached #3 in the Billboard Top 200. The record also features collaborations with M Ward, My Morning Jacket and Calexico among many others.
Listen to the first single ‘Man’ here: http://youtu.be/unNa-9qGkfI
Pre-order the full album via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/worse-things-get-harder-i/id656876689
Artist: Neko Case
Title: The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You Album
Label: ANTI
Release Date: 2 September 2013
Formats: CD / Digital Download / LP
Cat Number: EPIT27171-2
Distribution: Warner / ADA
Links: http://www.nekocase.com
http://www.anti.com/artists/neko-case
Neko Case Live in London at The Forum
Thursday 12 December
Tickets £16.50 https://birdonthewire.ticketabc.com/events/neko-c/
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Should we say her new album is highly anticipated? We don’t know about you, but when Neko Case has something new to say, we’re all ears. “There’s a lot of inner conflict going on,” she told NPR recently. In truth, a Neko Case always contains multitudes, each listen rewarding with greater depths to discover in the obliquely personal, brutally frank and amusingly colloquial lyrics in counterpoint to the sunlit melodies, haunted shadows in the rhythms and Case’s singular voice, whose power is enough to sweep across the sky, upset the moon on its axis and shift the surge of the ocean tides.
Neko Case has always been brave, but with her latest album she proves herself fearless. With The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, the singer known as much for her restless musical curiosity as her clarion voice charts a powerfully personal course across the rocky landscape of childhood, love, and loss. Emerging from what she describes as a three-year period of grief and mourning, the singer reveals herself here in all her messy, contradictory honesty. From the infectiously prickly of ‘Man’ and the chilling a capella clarity of ‘After midnight, Honolulu’, to the dreamlike ‘Where Did I Leave That Fire?’ which begins in submarine depths, traverses through deep sea feedback and piano sonar as Case seeks her lost mojo, and discovers she “can pick it up if you come down with ID” as if she’d left it in the back of a taxi. With the hopeful uplift of the album’s closing track, ‘Ragtime’, The Worse Things Get… finds Case at her most emotionally raw yet paradoxically, in steely control, looking clear-eyed toward the future.
The album was executive-produced by Case and recorded at Wavelab in Tuscon, as well as Portland, Los Angeles and Brooklyn. Tucker Martine, Case and Darryl Neudorf mixed the album, with backing by guitarist Paul Rigby, bassist Tom V. Ray, vocalist Kelly Hogan and multi-instrumentalist Jon Rauhouse. Other guests include M. Ward, Steve Turner, Howe Gelb, and members of The New Pornographers, My Morning Jacket, Calexico, Los Lobos and Visqueen. In addition to eleven new songs written by Case, The Worse Things Get… features a cover of ‘Afraid’ by Nico.
Praise for Middle Cyclone:
‘She’s more attuned to the vernacular idioms of rural music than the false trinketry of Nashville Central. Her sixth album Middle Cyclone both reasserts and expands on all that. It’s more than just country; it’s a glorious pop album with roots in classic rock, folk, Motown and more’ 4/5 Uncut
‘Case is an intriguing writer and coolly commanding singer who delivers every syllable without flaw in pitch, timbre and phrasing’ 4/5 Mojo
‘You made Neko’s spiritual big sister, Lucinda Williams, wait until her mid‑fifties before you welcomed her in. Don’t make the same mistake again’ 4/5 The Sunday Times
‘This sixth solo release forms a seamless extension to 2006’s acclaimed Fox Confessor Brings The Flood; more driving torch songs glowering across a dark vista of strings, piano and guitar’ The Observer
‘This album, arriving a bit more than ten years into her career, could and should take her to the next level. It is a lush dream of a song cycle’ 4.5/5 The Sun
‘A stormer’ 4/5 Daily Mirror
‘Exquisitely realized’ 4/5 Independent
‘Like a spot‑lit chanteuse bred on punk rock, Case sweeps us up like het titular storm with loved‑up odes to nature, intimacy and human resilience’ 8/10 NME
‘Just go buy it’ 8/10 Clash
‘One of the most memorable and seductive voices in music’ NPR
‘Her voice is a force of nature’ New York Times Magazine
‘Indie’s greatest singer’ Rolling Stone