"Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" was released on March 7, 2006. The album was recorded primarily in Tucson, over the course of two years as Case worked on the live "The Tigers Have Spoken" and continued to play with the New Pornographers. Critics hailed the record not only for Case's trademark vocals but also her use of stark imagery and non-standard song structures. "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" wound up on many "Best of 2006" lists, such as No.1 on the Amazon.com music editors' picks and No. 2 on NPR's "All Songs Considered". The album debuted at No. 54 on the "Billboard" 200 albums chart. It contains Case's most autobiographical song, "Hold On, Hold On". Case said: "the song is actually about me. It's not metaphorical about other people. It's not little pieces of my life made into a story about someone else or someone fictitious."