Neon grey midnight green (cd)

As if cosmically enacted, Neko Case breaks to the surface once again with the new album Neon Grey Midnight Green and reminds listeners that she is one of our greatest living songwriters - perpetually becoming more fearless and adventurous. Arriving September 26, the GRAMMY-nominated iconoclast's ninth LP is self-produced and her biggest-sounding and most intimate-feeling release yet.

Her first new music this decade, 'Neon Grey Midnight Green' follows 2018's 'Hell-On', an eclectic piece that The Guardian called "a pitch-perfect roar of female defiance." Her latest is no less urgent but carries a deep blue streak of sentimentality in its incandescent blaze. The album pays tribute to the musicians, producers and activists who have passed away in recent years, all artists Neko was lucky enough to call not just influences but close friends. She rises on the shoulders of her musical heroes, using the tools they lent her to create her most inspired work.