Neko Case has always been brave, but with her latest album she proves herself fearless. With her forthcoming release The Worse Things Get,the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, the singer, known as much for her restless musical curiosity as her clarion voice, charts a powerfully personal course across the rocky landscape of childhood, love, and loss.

Case's 2009 album Middle Cyclone vaulted her to new heights of critical and commercial success and netted two Grammy nominations. But if Middle Cyclone-laced with frogs, tornadoes, and killer whales-was Case's exploration of the potency of the natural world, the new album sees Case turning inward. The Worse Things Get... plunges into the wilderness of human experience, revealing Case at her most emotionally raw and yet, paradoxically, in steely control.

From art school in Vancouver to early years making music in Seattle and beyond, Case has been on a lifelong quest for self-definition. With The Worse Things Get..., she has committed fully to the life she has created, creating an album that displays uncommon dynamic range and lyrical clarity, taking a leap of faith that listeners will hold on for the full journey.

"I just want people to feel like I was straight with them, and messy." she explains, "Because I just let go and trusted them completely."