Neko Case
Neon Grey Midnight Green
12 richly expressionistic and mercurial songs shaped by a mix of indie rock, country both alt. and classic, ragtime, folk, powerpop and Southern Gothic, which flit between darkness and melancholy, hopefulness and light. Print edition only
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Neko Case
Neon Grey Midnight Green
A lyrically rich and musically colourful set of songs which is as emotionally exhilarating as it is often rawly painful. Print edition only
Mojo
Neko Case
Neon Grey Midnight Green
The album makes room for darker detours: the title track, with its haunted-house beat, the funk-tinged interlude “Tomboy Gold,” and the dusky folk of “Rusty Mountain”
Northern Transmissions
Neko Case
Neon Grey Midnight Green
After her home was destroyed by fire, her eighth album reasserts her unshakeable authority with songs of depth, detail and ambition
musicOMH
Cate Le Bon
Michelangelo Dying
It may soon be time for another change-up in Le Bon’s sound, seeing as her past three albums all possess similar qualities, but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. Le Bon has established herself as one of the finest in her field, and wherever she endeavours to go next will undoubtedly be fascinating
Far Out
Cate Le Bon
Michelangelo Dying
This isn’t the Cate Le Bon of playful abstraction. This is Cate staring at the wound, photographing it under UV light, letting it pulse on the club wall
Northern Transmissions
Cate Le Bon
Michelangelo Dying
A work of art born of personal pain
Clash
Cate Le Bon
Michelangelo Dying
In constructing such an ornate snarl of emotion and eloquence, Le Bon has effectively created in Michelangelo Dying a bummer album that doesn't actually require any wallowing to digest
Exclaim
Cate Le Bon
Michelangelo Dying
The album unfolds at its own unhurried pace. Initially, it can feel almost vaporous, but its textural richness rewards patience; with each listen, new layers emerge, like light shifting through water at different times of day
The Quietus
Cate Le Bon
Michelangelo Dying
Michelangelo Dying is dense and mysterious, sometimes in ways that are obtuse to a difficult degree and sometimes exhibiting such vulnerable tenderness it’s shocking
All Music
Cate Le Bon
Michelangelo Dying
Murky synthesizers and sweeping saxophones landscape her neo-psychedelic, modernist universe, and her voice gets closer to the listener than ever before
Paste Magazine
Cate Le Bon
Michelangelo Dying
One of the most original artists in indie music comes up with something opaquely alluring and genuinely moving
Rolling Stone