Neko Case "The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You" CD (2013)

Details: Neko Case's eighth studio album, released on ANTI- Records, deluxe CD booklet format (2013). The booklet is in wonderful condition--very little wear with it. CD media shows noticeable light scuffs or scratches. Will play through without problems.

Description: "Neko Case’s remarkable album, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You is an exorcism of a dark period of her life, and her most plainly autobiographical album to date. It also could be the most potent record of her career."--Pitchfork

"Once merely a third of the New Pornographers’ indie-rock-Avengers front line and a solo act with country-rock leanings, ginormous pipes, and comedy-club-stage banter, Neko Case has grown into one of America’s best and most ambitious singer-songwriters. Her perfectly turned sixth LP deals with identity and autonomy; it’s got feminist musculature and the dirt of a working musician under its fingernails. The lean ballad “I’m From Nowhere” addresses road-life loneliness; ditto “Local Girl,” an Aretha-echoing gospel-rock lament. Things amp up on “Man” (chorus: “I’m a man/That’s what you raised me to be”) and “City Swans,” with a hot solo from My Morning Jacket‘s Carl Broemel. Case’s vocals have never been more adventurous. She turns “Afraid,” written by her near-namesake Nico, into an existential affirmation of self-worth. And “Nearly Midnight, Honolulu” is a multitracked a cappella ballad about transcending childhood abuse whose tenderness somehow survives a surreal choral arrangement of the line “Get the fuck away from me.” Which goes to confirm: Case remains one remarkably tough broad."--Rollingstone.com

Grade: NM (Cover/Booklet) / VG (CD)

CD TRACK LISTING:

1. Wild Creatures
2. Night Still Comes 
3. Man
4. I'm From Nowhere
5. Bracing For Sunday
6. Nearly Midnight, Honolulu
7. Calling Cards
8. City Swans
9. 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