Neko Case

On March 3, Anti– Records will release the eagerly awaited new Neko Case album Middle Cyclone. The fifteen-track collection is her first release since 2006’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, the best-reviewed and best-selling album of her career. Fox Confessor was Case's first album to debut in the Billboard Top 100, and has sold nearly 200,000 copies in the United States alone. The album earned Case Female Artist of the Year honors from the PLUG Independent Music Awards, and a Top-10 placement in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics’ poll. Middle Cyclone was produced by Case with Darryl Neudorf and recorded in Tucson, Brooklyn, Toronto, and Vermont. It features her core band—guitarist Paul Rigby, bassist Tom V. Ray, backing vocalist Kelly Hogan, multi-instrumentalist Jon Rauhouse, and drummer Barry Mirochnick—plus numerous guests including M. Ward, Garth Hudson, Sarah Harmer, and members of the New Pornographers, Los Lobos, Calexico, the Sadies, Visqueen, the Lilys, and Giant Sand, among others.