The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You - Neko Case
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  • Summary: The sixth full-length release includes guest appearances from Howe Gelb, Mudhoney's Steve Turner, Visqueen, M. Ward as well as members of Calexico, Los Lobos, My Morning Jacket, the New Pornographers, was produced by Tucker Martine.
  • Record Label: Anti
  • Genre(s): Country, Alt-Country, Americana, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Country-Rock
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Magnet
    Sep 19, 2013
    95
    Almost every inch of The Worse Things Get is stout and strong-willed. [No. 102, p.52]
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  2. musicOMH.com
    Sep 6, 2013
    90
    On The Worse Things Get, there’s not a weak song.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Sep 3, 2013
    88
    It’s music, fighting to be wild.
  4. The Line of Best Fit
    Aug 30, 2013
    80
    It’s a tremendous listen and a wonderful demonstration of her talents nonetheless.
  5. Boston Globe
    Sep 3, 2013
    80
    This is the unusual album that’s beautiful and ugly, tender but tough, and that much more rewarding because of it.
  6. Spin
    Sep 3, 2013
    80
    Her voice is a bear hug in the literal sense; succumbing to it is like being carjacked by Patsy Cline.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Sep 10, 2013
    50
    An album of songs that seem to be about love and loss but never quite connect emotionally, almost as though Case is so wrapped up in seeming ladylike that she never really remembers to let go.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
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  1. PieceofMine
    Sep 5, 2013
    9
    This is easily her most sonically inaccessible album since 2002's Blacklisted, and maybe even more esoteric than that. The experimentation, however, is a necessary approach to keep the woman from being known only for her voice; she may, more than most singer-songwriters, need to rely on her song writing abilities more and more as she enters a more established, veteran phase of her career.

    The experimentation is also necessitated by the subject matter loss, resilience, complex reconciliation with angry feelings toward the past and comes off as her most novelistic (as well as autobiographical) effort in a catalog of visually robust songs. The voice, now legendary, serves as the listener's constant, a endlessly flexible yet always familiar entity that guides us through the ponderous, suffocating darkness in the middle of the album and toward the brilliant, rolling light in "Ragtime."    … Expand
  2. indiegalaxy10
    Sep 3, 2013
    8
    There's a positive change in her music, but her new sounds atmospheric and the rich textures are amazing. Her return is excellent not the best, but she is still a great artist.… Expand

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