Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Grammy-nominated songwriter makes a convincing bid to be Americana's next big crossover.
YOU CAN PROBABLY guess from the title that Neko Case has a few things to get off her chest. Seemingly restless, she has gradually evolved from outright country singer in the late ‘90s into someone reminiscent of a modern-day Kirsty McColl, defiantly self-determining and fearlessly honest. The belting Man and smoky Night Still Comes extend the poppier sound of the Grammy-nominated Middle Cyclone album which brought her to a more mainstream audience, balanced by gleeful risk taking as on a cappella weepy Nearly Midnight, Honolulu. The Worse Things Get… is also the fallout from three years of unspecified “grief and mourning”, the silver lining of which is a new depth to her prickly but previously sometimes brattish lyrics, a grown up album by a real grown up who knows how to sugar-coat a pill for mass consumption. Listen to Man here:
Listen to The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You via Spotify here: