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1 week agoNeko Case's First Album in Years Is Yet Another Extraordinary Transformation
It's titled after some characteristic atmospheric hues in the Pacific Northwest, where Case mostly grew up, often left to her own devices by parents too young and damaged to care for or even really love her, as chronicled in her harrowing bestselling memoir published earlier this year. On the ninth track here, "Rusty Mountain," she sings, "Love songs mostly sound the same/ An exercise in futility, for me/ There's a few who get away with it/ They've some divergent insight I can't find."
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