The GRAMMY-nominated iconoclast Neko Case is releasing her highly anticipated new studio album ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’ this Friday via Anti- Records. “It’s an album that blossoms with awe,” Pitchfork beautifully described in a new interview. “Soundtracking Case’s words are windswept arrangements and contagious melodies where baritone guitar, violin swells, and steady percussion crumple up feelings of dread and anxiety.” Case shares the sprawling highlight ‘Rusty Mountain,’ where the heart of the record seems to live and she declares: “We all deserve better than some love song.”
Neko Case – ‘Rusty Mountain’
This record is Case’s first new music this decade, following 2018’s Hell-On, an eclectic piece that The Guardian called “a pitch-perfect roar of female defiance.” Her latest is no less urgent but carries a deep blue streak of sentimentality in its incandescent blaze. More than any of her past albums, Neon Grey Midnight Green was laid down live with a full band – even breaths and shirt-sleeve rustlings were kept in the final mix as a reminder that “humans were here.” Recording primarily took place at Case’s own Vermont studio, Carnassial Sound, with additional sessions in Denver, Colorado with the PlainsSong Chamber Orchestra and in Portland, Oregon with Tucker Martine.
“There are so few producers who are women, nonbinary, or trans,” says Case, who identifies as gender fluid and uses she/her pronouns. “People don’t think of us as an option. I’m proud to say I produced this record. It is my vision. It is my veto power. It is my taste.”
Praise for Neko Case
“Case’s distinct voice is as mighty as a canyon; she often sings like someone hollering into a void and pausing to let her echo confidently resound.” – The New York Times
“She is one of our all-time great songwriters.” – NPR Music
“Fearless singer-songwriter calls it as she sees it in dramatic ninth solo outing.” – MOJO, 4 Stars
“Her lyrics – filled with folkloric wisdom, wildlife and natural imagery – invoke a world where human logic ranks second to animal instinct, and “civilization” is only a flimsy veneer over red-in-tooth-and-claw reality.” – The Guardian
Neko Case
Neon Grey Midnight Green
1. Destination
2. Tomboy Gold
3. Wreck
4. Winchester Mansion of Sound
5. An Ice Age
6. Neon Grey Midnight Green
7. Oh, Neglect…
8. Louise
9. Rusty Mountain
10. Little Gears
11. Baby, I’m Not (A Werewolf)
12. Match-Lit
