Probably a year ago, I stumbled on the music of Neko Case. I don't remember how, although I think it through an indie group called The New Pornographers, with whom she was associated before making it big in her solo career.
I'm not 100% sure why her music constantly finds its way to my ears. Her hypnotizing voice and lyrics are the most likely reasons, but her off-the-beaten-path-ness is equally appealing. Both qualities are evident if you see her live: the former in her usually 3-minutes-or-less musical gems, the latter in the irregular but hilarious anecdotes you hear between songs.I mean, how could a self-described "country noir" artist with radiant, ruby hair who also the co-stars with T-Pain in an animated TV series called "Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge" NOT be interesting?
Anyway, I'll quit gushing (as one blogger put it, "Sigh, I want to marry her, but that blasted restraining order...") and let you listen to the title track off of her 2006 album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood:
(P.S., see also the positively gut-wrenching "In California".)
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