Product Description

'Fox Confessor Brings The Flood' is the fourth album properfrom alt-country singer-songwriter Neko Case. Mixing bittersweet vignettes about love and loss with dark, Nick Cave-espue balladry has won Case many plaudits, and this album should push the sophisticated songstress further towards the manistream. Includes the tracks 'Star Witness' and 'A Widow's Toast'

Track Listing

1. Margaret Vs Pauline
2. Star Witness
3. Hold On Hold On
4. 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. Needle Has Landed

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67634 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-06
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

slow burners are the best!
I started listening to Neko stuff chronologically and was very impressed (fell in love) almost straight away.When I first heard fox confessor I thought the big slide was on.But no!!! After playing the C.D casually(once a month) for a year and a half it started to really grip me.What a woman!What a singer!! What a songwriter!!!! What a producer!!!! Every second of this thing is pure magic.I know she gets a lot of help from her boyfriends but when something is this good it can only be down to one person in the end.I really can not express my feelings about this "wonder" except by saying it makes me weep with joy.Sorry,I had to say that.Purchase,and play for atleast six months.I'm a slow learner and needed nearly two years.

What can she possibly mean?
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The song 'Hold On, Hold On' was featured on a recent Word compilation CD. It's always a little disappointing when you take the trouble to buy an album on the strength of a sample track to find out that it's head and shoulders above every other track on the album. Case has a great voice and on this track the soaring vocals are matched by a very catchy chorus, a compelling musical arrangement that sucks you in from the word go and some arresting lyrics, eg:

"In the end I was the mean girl
Or Somebody's in between girl
Now it's the devil I love
And that's as funny as real love"

And later on the lines " I leave the party at 3 a.m. - Alone, thank God" work rather well.

In other songs she is obscure to the point of perversion eg:

"An eagle swooped down from a semi-trailer
Took the name of your town from a sharp-toothed freighter"

"Your ex's have clawed up the bible with the sledge of tectonic fear"

What can she possibly mean?

The singing is first class throughout and the music is pretty good too. But the album would strengthened enormously if Case took the trouble to counter-balance her passion for obscurity with a willigness to write lyrics which were comprehensible.

If you get the chance to buy this album at a reduced price then I would recommend doing so for Hold, Hold On and a couple of the other more atmospheric tracks such as the title track. And if understanding what a song is about isn't important to you then you might even want to think about paying full price.

A Class Act
You will not be able to stop playing this album - the songs stay in your head for days. Clever, moving lyrics with great musical arrangements. Although some of the lyrics are quite dark this is not a miserable record. In fact I found myself smiling at some of Neko's words and just nodding my head in agreement. A great talent and a great album - check her out live!