In der New York Times gibt’s einen ausführlichen Artikel.
Lebensgeschichte, Karriererückblick, Homestory, ultimative Lobhudelei von T-Bone Burnett, Bemerkungen zu ihrer Musik. Nicht besonders viel zum neuen Album:
“Middle Cyclone” does include Case’s renditions of “Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth,” the odd, admonitory waltz by the decades-old protean band Sparks, and Harry Nilsson’s lovely and slyly funny “Don’t Forget Me,” and they happen to be the most overtly tuneful and “easy” of the album’s 15 tracks. By the way, the last track, “Marais la Nuit” — “Night Swamp” — is 32 minutes long, uses four-minute repeated loops, is amphibian in its tonalities and comforting in its effect, and that’s all that should be said about it before the album’s release…
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To say nothing of its title, 5 of the 15 songs on her new CD mention tornadoes or cyclones. So you would expect to find even more tempestuousness here. But the very first cut is called “This Tornado Loves You.” Hmm. A different spirit and, maybe, greater self-awareness. The vocabulary hasn’t lightened a great deal — nettles, cyclone, tornado, vengeance, animals and so on. But some of the distance is gone — the singer sounds more fully in her songs than she sometimes has sounded before. “I was willing to be a little more personal,” Case says. “I realized that it’s O.K. to admit that no matter who your characters are, you’re writing about yourself.” …“Middle Cyclone” — named after the area near the middle of a tornado in which air rushes straight up — comes close to immediate accessibility, but it is never pat, never ear Splenda. It has a Brechtian-sounding love song in march rhythm, two or three waltzes, a sweet Byrds-like salvo of opening guitars and vocal effects from wild to coy.
Und im PASTE Magazine gibt’s ein Interview mit Neko Case.
Aus dem TIP-Magazin: Christine Heise über Middle Cyclone
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