There's something that's been bothering me about some of the reviews of Neko Case's recent album, Middle Cyclone (also reviewed in today's Collegian). The album's last track, "Marais La Nuit," is 32 minutes of a field recording Case made on her property. It's a cacophony of summer peepers - swamp frogs - singing uninterrupted for a good half hour. The problem is that I've read at least three different reviews of the album that refer to sounds of the track as "the chirping of crickets." Those ain't crickets. That the review on PopMatters makes this mistake annoys me the most, because it also gave the album (which is very good) a 5/10. Please, reviewers, get your facts straight.

- Andy