As if cosmically summoned, every handful of years the GRAMMY-nominated iconoclast Neko Case breaks to the surface with a new album and reminds listeners that she is one of our greatest living songwriters – perpetually becoming more fearless and adventurous. Arriving September 26, today she announces ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’, her simultaneously biggest-sounding and most intimate-feeling album yet. …
Living in Los Angeles County, I have learned that we operate by a very different calendar than most. Here in La-La Land we see January not as the beginning of a new year, but the beginning of celebrating the year that has just ended. January though March we have a succession of awards shows extending …
Of all of Neko Case’s many skills, her most notable is the innate ability to make haunting music for those who yearn to be haunted. Blacklisted, the second “solo” album released after leaving the Pacific Northwest, is perhaps her darkest recorded hour. It’s also one my favorites; a disc that can change or enhance a …
Holy shit, I could listen to this woman sing forever. I’m gonna have to dig out an interview tape from 2000 someday, see if there’s anything worth repeating. – Steve Stav
Thanks to Steve Stav for the tip. This collaboration was recorded for True Blood. Here’s more on the story from the KCRW blog.
Neko Case – Furnace Room Lullabye, by Steve Stav
Neko Case has created a lot of compelling music in the last decade, both as an alt-country chanteuse and as a New Pornographer. However, my sentimental favorite is 2000’s Furnace Room Lullaby, the album that propelled her out of the Pacific Northwest and into international stardom. Furnace Room Lullaby firmly established a sort of trademarked …