[troutman]

This looks like a winner - Neko Case, Middle Cyclone:




http://www.metacritic.com/music/arti.../middlecyclone

http://www.pastemagazine.com/article...e-cyclone.html

While M. Ward, Garth Hudson and members of Giant Sand, Los Lobos and Calexico turn up to round off the album’s obtuse edges, this is Case’s show, her storytelling remains the clear centerpiece around which the tones and textures shift.

Less of a departure and more of a confirmation and deepening of everything she’s been exploring over the last 10 years, Case has never sounded quite so compelling as a storyteller, unleashing the full range of her humor, defiance, and despair.