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Jul 12, 2018 · Neko Case. Case reflects on a solitary childhood, the fire that consumed her house, the subjugation of women and the fate of humanity, and performs songs from her latest album, Hell-On.
- “Hold On, Hold On,” Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Case’s albums get more autobiographical with each release as she gets more comfortable writing about herself, and “Hold On, Hold On” was an early example of a song with Case herself set as the central character.
- “Deep Red Bells,” Blacklisted. Perhaps the most beautiful song ever sung about a monstrous serial killer and the near countless victims of his violence, “Deep Red Bells” is a lament for the dozens of women killed by the Green River Killer who terrorized the interstates around Case’s then home of Tacoma, Washington.
- “Dirty Knife,” Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. A parable based on her grandmother’s tales of Ukrainian relatives who succumbed to insanity in the old country, in “Dirty Knife” features some of Case’s most strikingly visual lyrics.
- “The Pharaohs,” Middle Cyclone. There are not a lot of love songs in Case’s catalog, though “The Pharaohs” comes close. Featuring Visqueen’s Rachel Flotard on backup vocals and The Band’s Garth Hudson on the organ, the song teases a happy tail about young lovers before derailing into a nearly inscrutable morass of depressive thoughts.
The lyrics of “Things That Scare Me” delve into profound themes and contemplations. With lines like “Were they trying to tell me something? Were they telling me to run?” Neko Case ponders the significance behind the blackbirds following her to school during her youth.
Neko Richelle Case (/ ˈ n iː k oʊ ˈ k eɪ s /; born September 8, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian indie rock group the New Pornographers. Case has a powerful, untrained contralto voice, which has been described by contemporaries and critics as a "flamethrower", [4] "a powerhouse [which] seems like it might ...