Episode 019: Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006), featuring special guest Dan McCoy!

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!
You can find Dan McCoy on twitter here: https://twitter.com/dankmccoy
You can watch The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central
You can listen to The Flop House at https://www.maximumfun.org or https://www.flophousepodcast.com/
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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!

You can find Dan McCoy on twitter here: https://twitter.com/dankmccoy

You can watch The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central

You can listen to The Flop House at https://www.maximumfun.org or https://www.flophousepodcast.com/

The spreadsheet Request Lottery picks and their associated numbers can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOiYNZduLxz7L2CtNUPK1YOu63ni2XTWpcy1cdB6EQw/edit?usp=sharing You can get your request on this list by donating to our Patreon account at the $5 level or above.

Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/PlayDiscPodcast

Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/PlayDiscPodcast/

Follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/PlayDiscPodcast

Email us at [email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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