"When the sun sets in the Pacific Northwest, indigo skies push up against a treeline of prickly Douglas firs and spacious hemlocks. The region's oft-sung- about grayness turns neon, swirling together in a piercing hue of evergreen and dark blues. "It's pretty much a beware color," Neko Case explains, having spent her formative years in Tacoma, Washington. "It's also one of the most beautiful colors.""
"When Case released 2018's Hell-On, she was brushing the ashes of her former house into a pile following a devastating fire. In the ensuing seven years since, the singer-songwriter rebuilt her home, fine-tuned her recording studio, wrote her debut memoir, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, reacquainted herself with the New Pornographers for two albums and then some, and started penning a musical adaptation of Thelma & Louise."
"Neon Grey Midnight Green is drunk on the magic of love and embracing the power of aging into yourself with each decade. 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. It's an album that blossoms with awe. Case herself sounds overcome, a musician reinstilled with faith that the world can surprise her."
Neon Grey Midnight Green evokes Pacific Northwest twilight with indigo skies, Douglas firs, and hemlocks folded into a piercing hue of evergreen and dark blues. The album follows a seven-year gap since Hell-On during which Case rebuilt her home after a fire, refined her studio, wrote a memoir, reunited with the New Pornographers, and began a musical adaptation of Thelma & Louise. The record centers on love, the consolations of grief, and the empowerment of aging. Arrangements combine baritone guitar, violin swells, and steady percussion to transmute dread and anxiety into blossoming awe. Vocals convey renewed faith and surprising emotional revelations.
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