New Pornographer and alt-country goddess Neko Case returns with Middle Cyclone in March. Along with members of her Canadian supergroup, the album will include guest appearances from M. Ward, Los Lobos, Calexico and the Lilys. Anti- Records doled out a preview track yesterday with this note:
"Today, we are especially happy to bring you "People Got A Lotta Nerve," the first single from Neko Case's forthcoming album Middle Cyclone (out March 3), because for every blog that reposts the song and/o
Brian Wilson had cars and surfboards. Lou Reed had transients and smack. Neko Case, another instinctive songwriter with identifiable lyrical obsessions, has weather and animals. That's considerable symbolic acreage, yet Case -- like Wilson and Reed, to name a couple of past masters -- compresses detached observation and wet hunger into distinctive miniatures. (And her gift for melodic surprise rivals even the old Beach Boy's polished touch.) Tides and floods and tornadoes, tigers and foxes and b
