Special guest Dan McCoy (writer for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and co-host of Maximum Fun's bad-movie podcast The Flop House) brings for discussion the 2006 alt-country album by singer-songwriter Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Over the course of our hour-long discussion we cover...
- The joys of working from home
- What "alt country" means and how Neko Case embodies it
- The gulf of difference between Neko Case's solo work and her side project with The New Pornographers
- How the album illustrate's Case's disillusionment with religion
- The unlikely hints of hopefulness throughout the album
- The "twist ending" at the end of "Margaret Vs. Pauline" and how it colors our reading of the rest of the songs
- The Ukranian myth behind the title track "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"
- Some of the heartbreaking details behind the mundane violence in "Star Witness"
- We roll for the PLAY DISC Request Lottery
- A preview of next week's episode!
Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side!
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