Neko Case Unleashes Her Middle Cyclone Album Art

A.C. Newman is about to release his second solo album Get Guilty, which means it's just about time for fellow multi-tasking New Pornographer Neko Case to (try to) show (him) up with her own extracurricular record. Middle Cyclone is her first collection of new material in three years (following 2006's Fox Confessor Brings The Flood). She recorded the 15 songs -- originals plus covers of Sparks' "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth" and "Don't Forget Me" by Harry Nilsson (which we witnessed live with some other new tracks) -- in Tucson, Brooklyn, Toronto, and Vermont. The instrumentation is Case backed by a five-piece band plus guest spots by M. Ward, Sarah Harmer, Garth Hudson and members of Los Lobos, Calexico, Lilys, Giant Sand, New Pornos, the Sadies, etc. The album cover, though, is Case by her lonesome, surfing her muscle car.

The tracks:

01 "This Tornado Loves You"
02 "The Next Time You Say Forever"
03 "People Got A Lotta Nerve"
04 "Polar Nettles"
05 "Vengeance Is Sleeping"
06 "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth"
07 "Middle Cyclone"
08 "Fever"
09 "Magpie To The Morning"
10 "I'm An Animal"
11 "Prison Girls"
12 "Don't Forget Me"
13 "The Pharaohs"
14 "Red Tide"
15 "Marais La Nuit"

Middle Cyclone is out 3/3 via Anti-.

Posted at 10:10 AM by brandon in Album Art
Tags: Neko Case

16 Comments

I used to be all "How could Neko Case be any cooler or gorgeous?"

But then she wielded a fucking sword from the hood of a car.

Posted by: oh. at 12/03/08 10:38 AM | Reply
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That Mercury Cougar only wishes it was powered by "Neko". "Whatever with you're whatever", if you're a Death Proof fan. She's officially the hottest chick on four Bridgestones! vroooom, vroooom.....

Posted by: Todd in reply to oh.'s comment at 03/15/09 2:00 AM | Reply
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i seriously got hard from that cover

Posted by: mrblau at 12/03/08 11:51 AM | Reply
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H e a s l e y.

Posted by: k at 12/03/08 12:11 PM | Reply
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Close second to album cover of next year (behind Morrissey).

Posted by: Chadams at 12/03/08 12:38 PM | Reply
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Where's the Web Sheriff telling you take this down?

Posted by: Rob at 12/03/08 12:44 PM | Reply
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he's busy with his twitter

http://twitter.com/thewebsheriff

Posted by: web deputy  in reply to Rob's comment at 12/03/08 12:56 PM | Reply
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YES!

Posted by: lovenox at 12/03/08 1:16 PM | Reply
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Awesome, awesome, awesome. Lil' Wayne is going to have a hard time topping this album cover.

Posted by: The Spilken8r at 12/03/08 2:12 PM | Reply
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god, those legs...

Posted by: alex at 12/03/08 4:09 PM | Reply
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This just makes me love Neko that much more.

Posted by: Jeff at 12/03/08 4:19 PM | Reply
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It's good to hear a progress report on this record. The songs she and her band played on tour last summer made me all the more impatient waiting for this new release.

Posted by: volume-addict at 12/03/08 7:41 PM | Reply
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Really? That's the cover? And people like that cover?

Don't get me wrong, I love her music, and I'm really looking forward to hearing this album, and there's no denying that those legs are smoking... but surely this is an ill-conceived photoshop nightmare?

Posted by: Rich at 12/05/08 2:42 AM | Reply
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So the song "People Got a Lotta Nerve" is about Neko being a maneater. She goes after younger guys. It's only proper that she's atop a Mercury Cougar, sword in hand in the photo. Get it? Cougar?

Posted by: Anon at 01/20/09 10:48 AM | Reply
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Nice shot of Neko, but that is a 1967 Mercury Cougar, and not a Mercury Cyclone that she is kneeling on!
Here is a 1967 Mercury Cyclone:
http://www.jumpthegun.com/cyclone/pictures/67burgcycdhuffrt.jpg

Posted by: Michael Bachman at 02/22/09 5:13 PM | Reply
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NIce Mercury Cyclone! Maybe cooler than the Cougar. Is it yours?

Posted by: TJL in reply to Michael Bachman's comment at 03/05/09 10:35 PM | Reply
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