"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

I ♥ Neko Case

I am posting to declare my willingness, nay, determination, to bear the children of the Canadian alt-country chanteuse, Neko Case.

Until this morning, I had only heard Neko Case's voice on The New Pornographers' three exquisite albums. Now that I've heard her new album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, I'm in love.

Just a few weeks ago, I was bowled over by Jenny Lewis' debut solo album, Rabbit Fur Coat. No offense to Jenny and Mlles. Watson (her back-up singers), but Neko has shown me the light. Chan Marshall, Nina Simone, Anneli Marian Drecker, Karen O, Lisa Gerrard, Liz Fraser, Annie Lennox, Alison Moyet - all are mere shadows of Neko's majesty.

But maybe I should get her other albums before I go too far overboard with my adoration.

On that note, what have I been listening to this week?

  1. v/a: Not Alone
  2. Stereolab: Fab Four Suture
  3. Goldfrapp: Supernature
  4. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness: Fear Is on Our Side
  5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
  6. Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
  7. Mogwai: Mr. Beast
  8. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken Seas
  9. Animal Collective: Feels
  10. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  11. Terrestrial Tones: Dead Drunk
  12. Matisyahu: Youth

Posted by Jonathan at 10:17 PM

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