专辑名称:The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
专辑艺人:Neko Case
音乐风格:Alternative Country-Rock,Indie-Folk/Alt-Country
专辑语种:英语
唱片公司:Anti- Records
发行时间:2013-09-03
资源格式:FLAC分轨
Neko Case生于美国弗吉尼亚州,童年的大部分时光是在华盛顿度过。在15岁那年,Neko就离开了父母,一个人出去打拼。三年之后,Neko Case开始在多支朋克乐队担任鼓手。而到了1994年,Neko又移居加拿大温哥华,来到了一所艺术院校学习。直到1997年,Neko才推出了自己的首张个人专辑《The Virginian》。
"Reveal myself when I'm ready / I'll reveal myself invincible soon," sings in "Ragtime," the mid-tempo ballad which closes her new record, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You. But she's hardly concealed her identity or evaded examination in the album's first 11 songs: This is arguably the most unguarded and revealing of Case's six records.
A brilliantly funny and outspoken character, Case has spent the past few years peeling the varnish off her persona. Now based on a 100-acre farm in Vermont, she about music, pet ownership, self-repair, politics, and the pursuit of love in tiny missives that can be candid, strange, profane, melancholy, hilarious, or some combination thereof.
Case's gift for disarming commentary carries over to the quotable, thoughtful, frequently lovely songs on The Worse Things Get: She can be bracingly acerbic (as in the aggressive power-pop gender-bender "Man"), boldly inspiring ("Ragtime" again: "I am one and the same / I am useful and strange"), or achingly tender (as in her Nico cover "Afraid," with its gasp-inducing delivery of the words, "You are beautiful and you are alone") while conveying equal, virtually boundless charisma.
Recorded with an assortment of her favorite collaborators — including producer , longtime backup singer , , her colleague , 's Rachel Flotard, and many more — The Worse Things Get (out Sept. 3) tucks thrills into its margins and doles them out in time-release doses. As her subtle touches suddenly cohere and register as surprises six or eight listens later (wait, are those submarine noises?), it's clear that Case remains essentially peerless: No one sounds like her, so every little revelation feels altogether new.
曲目列表:
01. Wild Creatures
02. Night Still Comes
03. Man
04. I'm From Nowhere
05. Bracing For Sunday
06. Nearly Midnight, Honolulu
07. Calling Cards
08. City Swan
09. Afraid
10. Local Girl
11. Where Did I Leave That Fire
12. Ragtime
13. Madonna Of The Wasps
14. Magpie To The Morning
15. Yon Ferrets Return