Neko Case

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.

Whoa

Album cover & track listing for new Neko Case album, due June 1!!! Cannot wait! pic.twitter.com/YbQsslFfpX

— Chris (@ctrauty) March 5, 2018

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

Those screams!

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.

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

Deep red bells is so good

new song is on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUXxAbZVZ4

beginning is very tom waitsy

Weird song. Probably sounds better in context.

agreed, sounds like one of her spacey mid-album tracks

yeah like the title track to "fox confessor brings the flood"

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.

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnCRbKyn1KY&index=2&list=PLtj2p8-HFwiy9o4ciHaat18jl-wv5K54F

I mean..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qzgDlDlNg&index=1&list=PLtj2p8-HFwiy9o4ciHaat18jl-wv5K54F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qzgDlDlNg

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.

Love seeing Kelly Hogan in that "Bad Luck" clip.

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.

not a lot of space for the song to breathe, makes me feel like I've airplane ears

still not lovin' overcompression

Neko Case is opening for Ray LaMontagne!? Not the other way around? What a world...

^^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.

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.

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

I love her every note but feel the same way about the new one

surprised people don't like this, I do, reminds me of carol keogh actually

New album is more of a grower than an immediate love affair like previously.

One of my favorite singers/solo artists I really never listen to. Always great, weirdly not compelling.

How’s the new one ?

Didn’t read xpost my bad

One of my favorite singers/solo artists I really never listen to. Always great, weirdly not compelling.

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.

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.

have been listening to middle cyclone a lot this past week
like it a lot more now than i did at the time

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, 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)

xp middle cyclone is my favorite

She's doing a short tour w/Dan Bejar opening late this year.

That sounds amazing

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.

She's doing a short tour w/Dan Bejar opening late this year.

note that she has 63 dates currently booked in the six months before the leg with Destroyer

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.

"halls of sarah" is excellent

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

Yeah, probably her best, still feels mysterious and new every time I hear it. The Sadies did a fantastic job backing her up.

fox confessor is absolutely extraordinary

I'm still fan of Middle Cyclone too. This one's good, but her albums take a while, mostly.

"behind the reservoir of collarbones / forms two private lakes" she's also one of the best lyricists going rn

She is a crazy talented writer for sure. "Margaret Vs Pauline" sketches out a whole world in under three minutes.