Critically acclaimed indie-rocker Neko Case is releasing her new album Middle Cyclone in March. It will undoubtedly be awesome like everything else she’s done, but I’d buy it just for the cover art (below). She’s surfing a muscle car, holding a fucking sword. First of all, muscle cars are bad ass, and you can’t argue with that. I wonder if the original thought was to just have Case on the car. A cyclone is pretty fierce though, so that just didn’t do it. Throw a sword in there with Case looking ready to jump off the car and slay a dragon, and it’s an instant classic. I don’t even need to see any other album coming out in ‘09, Case already has Album Cover of the Year wrapped up in my book.