Neko Case has spent over two decades building one of the most singular catalogs in American music, and 2025 made clear she has no intention of slowing down. Her eighth studio album, ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’, recorded and produced in her Vermont home studio, arrived alongside a New York Times bestselling memoir, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You. That kind of creative output demands attention on its own terms.
‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’ is a bold, fully realized record. Case moves through grief, love, and the natural world with the ferocity and defiance that have always defined her writing, anchored by sweeping string arrangements from Denver’s PlainSong Chamber Orchestra. These songs have real weight, and they carry it without effort.
For a WFUV Marquee concert at the Sheen Center, Case brought her full band: guitarist Paul Rigby, bassist Andrew McKeag, guitarist and vocalist Nora O’Connor-Kean, drummer Kyle Crane, and keyboardist Adam Schatz. The nine-song set included three tracks from ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’, “Rusty Mountain,” “Louise,” and “Wreck,” delivered with the kind of intimacy the album’s themes deserve.
Case also spoke during the session about her ongoing work with The New Pornographers and her decade-long collaboration with screenwriter Calli Khouri on a musical adaptation of the 1991 film “Thelma & Louise.” Two decades in, the ambition keeps expanding.