Case has finished paying homage; she's making Neko Case music now.  Full text...

There's such a bone-deep melancholy that drenches all of Case's solo work. Even the moments of redemption in Fox Confessor Brings the Flood stem from sorrow and loss. The grace with which Case chronicles these feelings is what makes her such an important artist and what makes her album a masterpiece.  Full text...

It begins with a song about how much easier the dead have it than we do (duh), but the music's beauty casts an unmistakable vote for the pleasures of living.  Full text...

Fox Confessor Brings The Flood is a masterpiece of poetic lyrics and catchy, intricate melodies, of sublime musicianship and risk-taking musical experimentation, that defies categorization.  Full text...

Her old haunts in the Pacific Northwest might have changed, but Case’s gradual evolution into a premier singer-songwriter has been even more substantial, and today, those early Vancouver days a distant memory, her marriage of the retro and the modern is in peak form.  Full text...

It's a dark and disturbingly surreal disc on which the crimson-tressed chanteuse takes her music into another world, blurring the line between dream, myth and reality.  Full text...

It's a slow-burner, starting with lots of down-tempo songs that twinkle or brood.  Full text...

Combining country, folk, and old-school rock, she faithfully invokes scenes of late-night wandererings illuminated by a jalopy's lone functional headlight.  Full text...

From her luscious, aching croon, and her ensemble's solemn high-mesa twang and groove (the crew includes members of Calexico and the Band's Garth Hudson), you'd never guess she wasn't covering Patsy Cline standards.  Full text...

Granted, it's an arresting and frequently beautiful record, because Case is an amazing singer who also writes provocative, bloodletting lyrics.  Full text...