Neko Case announces UK tour, new album out TODAY

Neko Case releases her acclaimed new album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You  today, via ANTI.

Following a magical sold out show at the Village Underground in May, a full UK tour has been announced for December calling at London’s Forum on 12 December.

The gorgeous single ‘Night Still Comes’ will be released on 28 October 2013, watch the mesmerising lyric video for it here: http://youtu.be/qhnFl3Y2FVI

Praise for The Worse Things Get…:
‘The Worse Things Get could hardly be better’ ‘Album of the Week’ The Sunday Times
‘Stand Out Album Of The Week’ 4/5 Daily Mirror
‘4/5’ The Guardian
‘Case’s fire is still very much in evidence’ 9/10 Uncut
‘Defiantly self-determining and fearlessly honest’ 4/5 Mojo
‘Another sweepingly beautiful, emotionally bruising suite of songs… a record fashioned by a singer in a world of her own’ 4/5 Q Magazine
‘Neko Case’s sixth album is typically sumptuous and lusciously heart-rending’ 8/10 NME
‘Neko’s time is definitely now’ 4/5 The Sun
‘With each new album, Neko Case becomes one of the most commanding singers around’ Diva
‘It’s an album 100% in control of itself, a journey of discovery that just won’t let you go’ London In Stereo
‘Case summons more than you’d ever imagine using less than you’d think possible’ 8/10 The Line Of Best Fit
‘4/5’ The Arts Desk
‘Not an easy listen, but a satisfying one’ The Independent
‘4/5’ Financial Times
‘One of the best voices in modern music’ 4/5 Daily Mail

Artist: Neko Case
Title: ‘Night Still Comes’ single
Label: ANTI
Release Date: 28 October 2013
Distribution: Warner / ADA
Links: http://www.nekocase.com  
http://www.anti.com/artists/neko-case

Neko Case UK Dates:
Fri 6 Dec Bristol Trinity www.alt-tickets.co.uk/alttickets
Sun 8 Dec Glasgow Oran Mor www.synergyconcerts.com/listings-tickets
Tue 10 Dec Manchester RNCM Concert Hall www.heymanchester.com
Wed 11 Dec Brighton Concorde 2 hwww.seetickets.com
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Neko Case returns with her first album in over four years, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You released on 2 September 2013 via ANTI.  Since 2009’s Middle Cyclone catapulted Case to the mainstream debuting at #3 in the Billboard Top 200, Case has earned her two Grammy nominations, a blazing furnace of critical warmth and commercial kudos with appearances on blockbuster events including The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond soundtrack with her song ‘Nothing to Remember’, and a memorable duet on The Zombies’ ‘She’s Not There’ with Nick Cave for the True Blood television series soundtrack.

Neko Case has always been brave, but with her latest album she proves herself fearless. With her latest ANTI release, The Worse Things Get… 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.

If Middle Cyclone – laced with frogs, tornados, and killer whales – was Case’s exploration of the potency of the natural world, the new album sees Case turning inward. The Worse Things Get… plunges into the wilderness of human experience, revealing Case at her most emotionally raw and yet, paradoxically, in steely control. Executive produced by Case, The Worse Things Get… was recorded by Tucker Martine in Portland, Oregon, as well as with Chris Schultz and Craig Schumacher in Tucson and with Phil Palazzolo in Brooklyn.

Martine, Case, and Darryl Neudorf mixed the album, on which Case is supported by a battalion of musicians including guitarist Paul Rigby, bassist Tom V. Ray, longtime backing vocalist Kelly Hogan, multi-instrumentalist Jon Rauhouse, Kurt Dahle, and John Convertino. Other guests include M. Ward, Carl Newman, Steve Turner, Howe Gelb, and members of My Morning Jacket, Los Lobos, and Visqueen. This far-flung set of collaborators mirrors Case’s own peripatetic path to creative maturity. Born in Virginia in 1970 and raised, for the most part, in working-class Tacoma, Washington, she’s lived and worked in Seattle, Vancouver B.C., Chicago, and Tucson, before moving five years ago to a 100-acre farm in rural Vermont.

The Worse Things Get… traces an emotional arc that reveals Case in all her thorny contradictions, each track in the 40-minute song cycle its own short story. “I like to have a linear flow,” she says of the album’s structure. “I wanted to have faith in the songs as a group rather than stacking the deck with all the upbeat songs at the top.”

From the prickly power-pop aggression of ‘Man’ to the dreamlike ‘Where Did I Leave That Fire?’ and the hopeful uplift of the album’s closing track ‘Ragtime’, she displays uncommon dynamic range and lyrical clarity, taking a leap of faith that listeners will hold on for the full journey. “I just want people to feel like I was straight with them, and messy, because I just let go and trusted them completely.”

Early songs on the album show Case at her most lyrically playful, slip-sliding along the edges of gender, family, and identity. The first track ‘Wild Creatures’ throws her themes into bold relief: “When you catch light, you look like your mother,” her voice soars, before asking, “Would you rather be the king’s pet? Or the king?”

But for all the pain and confusion that winds through the album The Worse Things Get… ends on an unequivocal note of hope and power. At her darkest moments over the last few years, Case says, she couldn’t listen to music except ragtime; “It was so hopeful and busy, like something working like a little factory to fix me.” And so, ‘Ragtime’ closes the album. “I am one and the same, I am useful and strange,” she soars, before closing with a line cribbed from Moby Dick, which she read for the first time while working on the album, and which proved a valuable yard stick  “There’s a wisdom that’s woe, and a woe that is madness.”

It’s Neko Case in a nut shell.

Neko Case full European Dates:
Sun 24 Nov Oslo Rockefeller http://www.billettservice.no/
Mon 25 Nov Stockholm Kägelbanan http://www.sodrateatern.com/sv/Program-och-biljetter/
Wed 27 Nov Copenhagen Bremen Teater http://www.sodrateatern.com/sv/Program-och-biljetter/
Thu 28 Nov Utrecht Le Guess Who Festival http://leguesswho.com/
Fri 29 Nov Hamburg Mojo Club http://kj.de/
Sat 30 Nov Berlin Roter Salon http://kj.de/
Mon 2 Dec Munich Freiheiz http://kj.de/
Tue 3 Dec Vienna Szene http://www.oeticket.com/de/
Thu 5 Dec Antwerp De Roma http://www.deroma.be/
Fri 6 Dec Bristol Trinity http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/alttickets/home_neko_case.html
Sun 8 Dec Glasgow Oran Mor http://www.synergyconcerts.com/listings-tickets
Tue 10 Dec Manchester RNCM Concert Hall http://www.heymanchester.com/neko-case
Wed 11 Dec Brighton Concorde 2 http://www.seetickets.com/Event/neko-case/concorde-2/734867
Thur 12 Dec London The Forum, £16.50 https://birdonthewire.ticketabc.com/events/neko-c/