
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You is a Alt/Indie album by Neko Case, originally released in 2013. On Gatefold: 11 pressings tracked, owned by 5 collectors.
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- warm
- yearning
- confessional
About
On her sixth studio album, the incomparable Neko Case returns to the exquisitely dark, structurally complex, yet unfailingly lovely songwriting that made her 2006 landmark <i>Fox Confessor Brings the Flood</i> so transcendent. “Night Still Comes” is Case at her most achingly gorgeous, even while singing tormented lyrics reminiscent of Fiona Apple’s “Every Single Night” (“My brain makes drugs to keep me slow… but not even the masons know what drug will keep night from coming”). “Bracing for Sunday” finds Case singing matter-of-factly about murdering the man responsible for a friend’s death. “Nearly Midnight, Honolulu” is an appalled a capella lullaby to a child Case witnessed being viciously berated by his mother, while the darkly baroque “Afraid” gives us the gift of Neko covering Nico, the former Velvet Underground muse. Still, the album is not without lighter moments such as plaintive love song “Calling Cards” or the resilient, horn-swirling closing track, “Ragtime.”
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Wild Creatures2:39
- A2Night Still Comes3:47
- A3Man3:27
- A4I'm From Nowhere3:01
- A5Bracing For Sunday2:17
- A6Nearly Midnight, Honolulu2:34
Side B
- B1Calling Cards2:36
- B2City Swans4:04
- B3Afraid2:20
- B4Local Girl2:34
- B5Where Did I Leave That Fire3:27
- B6Ragtime4:25
Side C
- C1Madonna Of The Wasps3:46
- C2Magpie To The Morning2:56
- C3Yon Ferrets Return1:16
- 1Wild Creatures2:40
- 2Night Still Comes3:48
- 3Man3:31
- 4I'm From Nowhere3:02
- 5Bracing For Sunday2:19
- 6Nearly Midnight, Honolulu2:37
- 7Calling Cards2:37
- 8City Swans4:08
- 9Afraid2:21
- 10Local Girl2:36
- 11Where Did I Leave That Fire3:27
- 12Ragtime5:14
- 13Madonna Of The Wasps3:48
- 14Magpie To The Morning2:59
- 15Yon Ferrets Return1:16
Credits
Performers
- Kelly HoganBACKING VOCALS
- Rachel FlotardBACKING VOCALS
- Tom RayBASS
- Kurt DahleDRUMS
- Steve TurnerELECTRIC GUITAR
- Paul RigbyELECTRIC GUITAR ACOUSTIC GUITAR TWELVE-STRING GUITAR
- Jon RauhouseELECTRIC GUITAR PEDAL STEEL GUITAR ACOUSTIC GUITAR
- Bo KosterPIANO ORGAN SYNTH
- Steve BerlinSAXOPHONE BARITONE SAXOPHONE FLUTE
- Neko CaseVOCALS BACKING VOCALS GUITAR
- A.C. NewmanBACKING VOCALS GUITAR
- Jim JamesBACKING VOCALS
- Joey BurnsCELLO BARITONE GUITAR BASS
- M. WardELECTRIC GUITAR VOCALS
- John ConvertinoDRUMS
- Tracyanne CampbellVOCALS
- Jacob ValenzuelaTRUMPET
- Martin WenkTRUMPET
5 collectors on Gatefold own this · 11 pressings tracked on Gatefold
