Neko Case 'Middle Cyclone' EPK
About The Artist
As if cosmically enacted, every handful of years Neko Case breaks to the surface with a new album and reminds listeners that she is one of our greatest living songwriters - perpetually becoming more fearless and adventurous. This has been true throughout her more than twenty-five-year career, during which her ferocious indie-rock and country-noir sound has swelled and shrunk to fit the mood, but the walloping impact of the universes she creates has never wavered. Listening to Case’s music will teach you about this world— human nature’s cruelty, perseverance and terrifying beauty, but the natural world as well — the moon and the stars, bees, lions and magpies. Should you encounter a wayward soul who has never heard her music, you might respond, “Well, she once sang from the perspective of a tornado,” as if to say: there’s no physical form that could stop her potent voice and evocative storytelling.
Arriving September 26, the Grammy-nominated iconoclast’s ninth LP, Neon Grey Midnight Green, is self-produced and her biggest-sounding and most intimate-feeling album yet. Initially entering the music scene as a drummer, Case harnessed her songwriting prowess and figurative and literal voice in 1997 with breakout debut album The Virginian. Followed by the elegiac Furnace Room Lullaby, the jangly melancholy of Blacklisted and touching covers of Loretta Lynn and The Shangri-La's backed by The Sadies on her first live album The Tigers Have Spoken, the experience of these early records led to the baroque and spectral masterpieces Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006) and Middle Cyclone (2009) and the raw and heavy inward reflection on 2013’s The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You.
