It's minor but imo v pleasant and listenable
― Mordy, Thursday, 16 June 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/event/music/482505160/first-listen-live-watch-neko-case-k-d-lang-and-laura-veirs-perform-their-new-alb
i like this too.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
they're playing this festival at the camden bb&t pavilion in late july on the same day as songhoy blues + femi kuti. i'm in margate that week but thinking about coming back to the city to see the show... those are 3 acts i'd love to see.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
Whoa
Album cover & track listing for new Neko Case album, due June 1!!! Cannot wait! pic.twitter.com/YbQsslFfpX— Chris (@ctrauty) March 5, 2018
― JoeStork, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
this turned up in the replies - hadn't heard it before and it rules
No kidding!! And you just reminded me of my favorite Wits episode where It closed with Neko singing Maiden! https://t.co/zfdZZrly35— Chris (@ctrauty) March 5, 2018
― Simon H., Monday, 5 March 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
Those screams!
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 5 March 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
I was *just* wondering what she was up to. Very excited, I haven't seen her live in a while, gotta catch her this time around!
She's going almost 20 years and there's no duds in her catalog, and almost every guest appearance is worthy as well.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
Not really into most Springsteen-style bands but this is one of my favorite appearances with her:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcAty0w-ruM
― Nhex, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
Deep red bells is so good
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
new song is on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUXxAbZVZ4
beginning is very tom waitsy
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Weird song. Probably sounds better in context.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
agreed, sounds like one of her spacey mid-album tracks
― Nhex, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
yeah like the title track to "fox confessor brings the flood"
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
I like this, almost a Rubber Soul-remembered-as-a-dream vibe about it. seems weird that her label would release it as a single/teaser (unless the rest of the album is really low key), but I already know I'll rip it for my phone when I get home.
― Dominique, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
I like it too, it has that Tin Pan Alley/cabaret thing that can go wrong, but this works (and I love it when Tom Waits does it too). Nice sneaky switch to 4/4 going into that bridge.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Just prior to hearing this, I was listening to a promo by a Birthday Party-like band, and was lamenting that the whole noir thing is so played out. Then this lands and disproves my point.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnCRbKyn1KY&index=2&list=PLtj2p8-HFwiy9o4ciHaat18jl-wv5K54F
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
I mean..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qzgDlDlNg&index=1&list=PLtj2p8-HFwiy9o4ciHaat18jl-wv5K54F
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qzgDlDlNg
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
I'm gonna randomly mention that I've been obsessed for years w/her song "I Missed the Point." I have to sit, transfixed, whenever it's playing... the melody, music & lyrics are all astonishing. If I were the type to pick out "songs to be played at my funeral," that one would top the list -- it's that kind of song, so personal/powerful.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
Love seeing Kelly Hogan in that "Bad Luck" clip.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 12 April 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
Haven't seen her live in awhile, but it looks like her only upcoming gig near me is opening for Ray LaMontagne at a big outdoor shell with lawn location. Not really a fan of his.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
not a lot of space for the song to breathe, makes me feel like I've airplane ears
still not lovin' overcompression
― niels, Thursday, 12 April 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
Neko Case is opening for Ray LaMontagne!? Not the other way around? What a world...
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 12 April 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
^^Reminds me of this time I was watching The Tonight Show when they had Jakob Dylan on and I realized Kelly & Neko were his backing singers AND NOBODY SAID ANYTHING.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 April 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
Re-listened to Furnace Room Lullaby for the first time in ages. I'd forgotten how great that disc is & just how spectacular her vocals are.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
Not sure about any of these new songs tbh - I should be excited for a slow burning seven-minute duet with Mark Lanegan but it's not clicking for me yet
― Simon H., Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
I love her every note but feel the same way about the new one
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
surprised people don't like this, I do, reminds me of carol keogh actually
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
New album is more of a grower than an immediate love affair like previously.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
One of my favorite singers/solo artists I really never listen to. Always great, weirdly not compelling.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
How’s the new one ?
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Friday, 1 June 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
Didn’t read xpost my bad
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Friday, 1 June 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 June 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
I gave the new one a listen - it def seems like it would take some time to reveal itself. (The duet w/ Lanegan has definitely grown on me.) A part of me still misses the unadorned beauty of stuff like "Wish I Was the Moon" and "South Tacoma Way" but she's obviously doing exactly what she wants to do.
― Simon H., Friday, 1 June 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
I don't reach for Neko's music very often, but I do think she has her own way of writing that is different from anyone else, and thus awesome. I feel like she lives in a different world than the rest of us.
― alpine static, Friday, 1 June 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
have been listening to middle cyclone a lot this past weeklike it a lot more now than i did at the time
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
― alpine static, Friday, June 1, 2018 1:53 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, exactly -- I also hear a lot of Kristin Hersh on here, especially on "Gumball Blue" (the melody is kinda like "Cottonmouth," "stain the edges of the nebula gumball blue" is 100% something she would write)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
xp middle cyclone is my favorite
― niels, Friday, 1 June 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
She's doing a short tour w/Dan Bejar opening late this year.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
That sounds amazing
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Your blues rules
first time thru Gumball Blue I thought, well, she should've given this one to the New Pornos ... then learned it's a Newman co-write.
and with that said, it's pretty amazing how much Newman's style infiltrates that song, considering Neko's distinctive (writing) voice.
― alpine static, Friday, 1 June 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
note that she has 63 dates currently booked in the six months before the leg with Destroyer
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 1 June 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
I love Middle Cyclone and I listen to it all the time. I pull out Furnace Room and Blacklisted pretty often too.
I really liked the last one but there were just a couple songs I had a hard time listening to (notably the "Nearly Midnight, Honolulu"), which keeps me from putting on the album regularly.
In any case I regard her as one of my very favorite artists. I haven't yet listened to the new one though the singles have been hit and miss for me.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 2 June 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
"halls of sarah" is excellent
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Monday, 4 June 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
i think i like this one better than the last one, feels more balanced
somewhat ot but fox confessor increasingly seems like one of the best albums ever made to me
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Monday, 4 June 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
Yeah, probably her best, still feels mysterious and new every time I hear it. The Sadies did a fantastic job backing her up.
― Simon H., Monday, 4 June 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
fox confessor is absolutely extraordinary
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 June 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
I'm still fan of Middle Cyclone too. This one's good, but her albums take a while, mostly.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 June 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link