Neko Case shares new track & album released 2 September

Neko Case has shared a lyric video for the gorgeous track ‘Night Still Comes’, one of the many highlights from her anticipated new album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, released on 2 September via ANTI. Watch it here: http://youtu.be/qhnFl3Y2FVI

The new album is Neko Case’s 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 others.

Following a magical sold out show at the Village Underground in May, Neko Case will play The Forum in London on 12 December. A full UK tour will be announced soon.

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
The Forum, Thursday 12 December
Tickets £16.50 https://birdonthewire.ticketabc.com/events/neko-c/

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 forthcoming 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.

With her new roots finally taking hold in Vermont – the place she says she plans to die – Case says she’s now grounded enough to grab the past by the throat and let it take her for a ride. “I wanted to be in control, as much as I could be anyway,” she says. “My 40s are a lonelier place than I imagined, but I can look myself in the face and know that it was my choice. So anything that happens to me from here on out is mine. I’m at square one again.”

The Worse Things Get… her sixth studio album, emerges from a three-year period Case describes as full of “grief and mourning,” in the wake of the deaths of not just both her parents, but several intimates as well.

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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?”

“I grew up in the United States in the 70s,” says Case, with feeling. “The new mantra on children’s television then was ‘you can be whatever you want.’ I take that to heart so hard it’s my religion; it’s my personal American flag and Constitution. It makes petty societal obstacles crumble and I want every person in the world to feel it. “Or, as she proudly proclaims on the single ‘Man’: “I’m a man’s man, I’ve always been. But make no mistake what I’ve invested in. A woman’s heart is the watermark by which I measure everything.”

“Is a lioness not a lion?” she says rhetorically, when asked to decode the lyrics. “We are all ‘men’ – ‘man’ or ‘woman’ doesn’t cut it for me unless I’m at the gynecologist.”

Case’s rich, associative lyrics can at times be so elliptical as to be misunderstood by casual listeners. Not so with the acappella ‘Nearly Midnight, Honolulu’ which marks the tonal shift of the album at midpoint with chilling clarity. Spare and direct, the lyrics repeat verbatim the words of a mother’s verbal attack on her daughter, which Case overheard one night in, yes, Honolulu. “Get the fuck away from me,” she sings in affectless, bell-like tones. “Why don’t you ever shut up?”
“I died inside for that kid,” says Case-who framed the rest of the song as a message to the child to stay strong and to honor the truth of her experience. “But she just kept singing her own little song. She was my hero.”

The direct address of ‘Honolulu’ is mirrored three tracks later with Case’s take on the Nico song ‘Afraid’, the only cover on the 12-song album. That song’s incantatory quality carries the album through to the otherworldly ‘Where Did I Leave That Fire?’ Underscored by the haunting pings of submarine sonar, what starts as a dreamscape of loss; “I wanted so badly not to be me,” sings Case, concluding on a note with typically wry humor; “I do believe we have your fire lady. You can pick it up if you come down with ID.”

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.

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