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Neko Case announces new album, Hell-On, featuring incredible cover art

The New Pornographers member readies her first solo album in five years

When Neko Case hits the road with Ray Lamontagne this summer, she’ll have some new tunes to play. Today, the veteran singer-songwriter announced her latest solo album, Hell-On, due for release on June 1st through ANTI- Records.

 

Hell-On marks Case’s first solo album in five years following 2013’s The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love YouMost recently, she teamed with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs on the 2016  collaborative LP, case/lang/veirs, and appeared on The New Pornographers’ 2017 album, Whiteout Conditions.

 

Besides its release date, Case also revealed  the album’s 12-song tracklist and strange, smoking cover art. You can find those beneath a teaser video that features a snippet of the title track. A longer preview of “Hell-On” can be heard via iTunes.

 

 

 

Neko Case -- Hell-On
 

Hell-On Tracklist:
01. Hell-On
02. Last Lion of Albion
03. Halls of Sarah
04. Bad Luck
05. Curse of the I-5 Corridor
06. Gumball Blue
07. Dirty Diamond
08. Oracle of the Maritimes
09. Winnie
10. Sleep All Summer
11. My Uncle’s Navy
12. Pitch or Honey

 

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/03/neko-case-announces-new-album-hell-on-featuring-incredible-cover-art/

 

 
 
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1 hour ago, tonyfranciosa said:

Kings Road sux. Will wait on a legit preorder elsewhere. I'll need this on release day, not 2 weeks later.

Yeah, I'll order this from Bullmoose.  At this point, I'd rather get a less rare variant than give KRM any money.

 

Also, that cover art is wild.  I like it.

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She looks a little like Celine Dion in that pic.  The song ventures into that European Tom Waits artiness and I feel like I'm going to either love this album or hate it, rather than being indifferent, since she left Americana behind. I guess I will wait to hear more tracks, because I'm definitely not buying a brown version of the record.

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Just now, timsimmons said:

I'll always take extra tracks but the field recording never bothered me. 

 

Me neither tbh but it did feel like "Uhhhh we got an extra side to fill". Artists who came of age during the CD boom usually record three sides worth of songs (almost every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2LP is 3-sided). Just a nice change of pace to know it's a "proper" double album.

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38 minutes ago, timsimmons said:

I like the Fox Confessor bonus disc version cover OK, but I don't think shes had a good album cover at all. 

You're right actually. Fox Confessor is the only album of hers that has has good artwork. All the others have been meh to bad.

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  • 2 months later...

Got my brown in the mail today. Much prefer the album artwork than it looked in the mockup. No neon yellow garbage all over it, spot gloss looks terrific, triple gatefold, looks solid, great insert. Still probably my least favorite album from her. HATE the duet cover. Haven't had a chance to listen to the vinyl yet, but I'll get there.

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