{"id":18175,"date":"2013-08-19T06:08:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=18175"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:34:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T22:34:37","slug":"stream-new-neko-case-album-at-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-08\/stream-new-neko-case-album-at-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Stream New Neko Case Album at NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NCTLR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17941\" alt=\"NCTLR\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NCTLR.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NCTLR.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NCTLR-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/NCTLR-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In two weeks <em><strong>La Reine de Reverbe<\/strong><\/em><strong><\/strong>, <strong>Neko Case<\/strong>, will release her first album in too long, <strong><em>The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This is her sixth album and, upon first listen, possibly her most personal and divergent outing yet.<\/p>\n<p>The album was produced by <strong>Case<\/strong> and recorded in Tuscon, Portland, Los Angeles and Brooklyn with, amongst others, producer <strong>Tucker Martine<\/strong>.\u00a0 Girl gets around.\u00a0 Case is backed by various colleagues, including guitarist <strong>Paul Rigby<\/strong>, bassist <strong>Tom V. Ray<\/strong>, vocalist <strong>Kelly Hogan<\/strong> and multi-instrumentalist <strong>Jon Rauhouse<\/strong>, along with <strong>M. Ward, Steve Turner<\/strong>, the musical-gigantor <strong>Howe Gelb<\/strong>, and members\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>The New Pornographers,\u00a0My Morning Jacket, Calexico, Los Lobos<\/strong> and <strong>Visqueen<\/strong>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a litany of musical wealth, which <strong>Case<\/strong> employs in full on several tracks.\u00a0 But you can also hear <strong>Case<\/strong> going her own way, invoking new sounds and effects along the way and even eschewing all instrumental accompaniment for the devastating<em><strong> Near Midnight,<\/strong><strong> Honolulu<\/strong><\/em>, and almost all instrumentation on the similarly evocative <em><strong>Afraid<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>(a<strong> Nico<\/strong> cover).<\/p>\n<p>Case has always rended and patched hearts superbly well with her songs, and with its new sounds and subjects, this new album might be her finest collection yet.\u00a0 Check it out over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/08\/18\/210215544\/first-listen-neko-case-the-worse-things-get-the-harder-i-fight?ft=1&amp;f=&amp;refresh=true\"><strong>NPR HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two weeks La Reine de Reverbe, Neko Case, will release her first album in too long, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.\u00a0 This is her sixth album and, upon first listen, possibly her most personal and divergent outing yet. The album was produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}