Depending on which album you pick up (or what mood she’s in onstage), Neko Case can be loosely defined as a honky-tonk thrush, an indie-rock goddess or the queen of noir and murder ballads. Most accurately, she’s all of the above and more — and 100 percent badass. From her punk roots with Canada’s Maow to her 1997 insurgent country debut, The Virginian, to her albums with power-pop act the New Pornographers to 2006’s critically acclaimed Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and this year’s Middle Cyclone, Case has firmly established herself as one of the most consistently compelling artists of her generation — not to mention in a whole handful of different genres. Live, she knows how to beguile with a high note, a guitar strum, a quirky twist of phrase and — when she’s really in the zone — wickedly funny stage banter that proves the perfect counterbalance to her frequently deeply haunting tunes.
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