Neon Grey Midnight Green (2025)

"Neko Case has built a successful career and a remarkable body of work out of firmly following her own muse; she creates her music entirely on her own terms. 2025's "Neon Grey Midnight Green" is, even by her standards, a very personal work. It's a big, bold sounding work with intricate arrangements and even orchestral accompaniment on several tracks, but despite the size and scale of the music, the album has the emotional intimacy of overheard conversation. Case has said the songs were meant to pay homage to musicians, activists, and friends she lost in the years leading up to its creation. Each track reads like a character study of some memorable individual, honoring their virtues and their flaws with a sense of detail that makes clear how well she knew them. Case is a vocalist who lives up to the old cliché that they could sing the telephone book and make it work, but there's a subtle but deeply felt emotional vigor to these performances that ups her usual ante." (Allmusic; 4 uit 5 sterren)