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Music CD - Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
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Music CD: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Artist: Neko Case
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Anti
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Tracks:
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1. Margaret vs. Pauline
2. Star Witness
3. Hold On, Hold On
4. A Widow's Toast
5. That Teenage Feeling
6. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
7. John Saw That Number
8. Dirty Knife
9. Lion's Jaws
10. Maybe Sparrow
11. At Last
12. The Needle Has Landed
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0045778677726
Label: Anti
Manufacturer: Anti
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Anti
Release Date: 2006-03-07
Studio: Anti
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Incredible
Comment: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood is a wonderful example of a brilliant singer. Neko Case gets the nod as one of the most gifted American singers with a voice like silk and a delivery that is welcomely unusual. The album is painfully short, though, clocking in at just under 38 minutes. One has to wonder why.
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Summary: Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Comment: As always, a couple of cuts I could live without. Overall, a very enjoyable CD, with "Hold On" being outstanding. Great new artist with room to grow.
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Summary: Short Emotional Arcs are Unsatisfying
Comment: Basically, her songs are very short on this album... most are two minutes. Or even less. She reaches the top of her range, and then her song is over. If the song was longer, like Roy Orbison did, her crescendo would make sense. But the songs simply are not developed or long enough. My attention flagged. The brevity of the songs were what took over, for me.
If only she could do a cover, I kept thinking, so I could really enjoy that voice at full tilt for more than ten seconds, or even three.
The album art also did not satisfy. There were many drawings, and admittedly I wanted to look at pictures of her instead. There was not a single photo of her inside the fat booklet. Pictures of billboards, stacks of tape reels, drawings of semi-trucks, instead.
Many people I'm sure would enjoy this album, but I did not care for it.
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Summary: I need this album like a drug
Comment: When I got this CD, I wasn't familiar with Neko Case, but soon I found I couldn't stop playing it back to back in an endless loop. Now, a year and a half later, even my 3 year old loves it and knows all the words since I subjected her to it constantly.
It's dark, it's lovely, it gets in your bones and just won't stop. Try to turn away...I dare you.
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Summary: astonishingly good
Comment: This CD grew on me over time. There's several excellent tracks that will hit me immediately but then I began to realize that all of the tracks are worth _many_ repeated listens. Easily one of my favorite CD's of that year. Ms. Case's singing is impressive -- strong and clear at all times. Her musicianship is just as impressive. Her lyrics have a dark streak to them and I suspect this will turn some off but they are missing out.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Nine seconds into her first studio album since 2002's Blacklisted, and there it is. You can't miss it. The voice. Instantly recognizable and uniquely commanding, it has been uniformly overlooked by the masses and beloved by those who have caught on. And, believe it or not, it gets even better, whether Neko Case is warbling like a porch-swing neighbor to Loretta Lynn ("Margaret vs. Paulene," "John Saw That Number"), pontificating from the spiritual pulpit of Etta James ("Lion's Jaws," "Maybe Sparrow"), or unleashing the high-octane zeal of a power-pop spitfire ("Hold On Hold On," "The Needle Has Landed"). Her uncanny, often eccentric lyrics have always been delivered with an inherent passion behind the impulse, but rarely have they approached the boldness of these dozen--many of which were inspired by generations of tales from her Ukrainian ancestors. As usual, Case's industry running buddies collaborate to make the sounds behind her, from Calexico to Howe Gelb of Giant Sand to the Band's renowned Garth Hudson. Still, it all comes back to the voice, that serenading urgency that asks in the title song, "How can people not know what beauty this is?" Yes, there are some to ask, how not? --Scott Holter More from Neko Case 
Furnace Room Lullaby | 
Blacklisted | 
The Tigers Have Spoken | 
Live from Austin, Texas | 
Electric Version, the New Pornographers featuring Neko Case | 
Twin Cinema, the New Pornographers featuring Neko Case |
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