Fox Confessor Brings the Flood is the fourth solo album by American alt-country musician Neko Case, released March 7, 2006 by ANTI- Records.
Case is backed by several collaborators, including bandmates Jon Rauhouse and Tom V. Ray, as well as frequent collaborators The Sadies, Giant Sand's leader Howe Gelb, vocalist Kelly Hogan, Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino, and Canadian cohorts Brian Connelly and Paul Rigby.
The album was engineered by Craig Schumacher and Chris Schultz, and produced and mixed by Neko Case and Darryl Neudorf.
[13][needs update] Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Bonus Disc Version) was released November 6, 2007, which includes five additional songs.
Neudorf helped mix, produce and engineer other Case albums including The Virginian (1997), Furnace Room Lullaby (2000), Blacklisted (2002), The Tigers Have Spoken (2005), Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Bonus Disc Version) (2007) and Middle Cyclone (2009).
[15] Regarding a cover of "Star Witness" by Canadian students Kate Macdonald and Janelle Blanchard, Case wrote via Twitter "Wow.
In “John Saw That Number”, Case mixes words of “an old American spiritual with a musical idea from India” [17] and “Widow’s Toast” is an example of the artist creating “more space on the record” in order to make what is there stand out.
[21] Looking back on Fox for its 10th anniversary, Billboard's Kenneth Partridge named it "an indie-rock landmark" and "an album of ugly truths beautifully rendered.