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Neko Case  Neon Grey Midnight Green

Despite Case arguing that we deserve more than a love song, Neon Grey Midnight Green is a true act of love: an invitation to become entangled in the emotional web of feeling, living and making together, warts and all Exclaim

Neko Case  Neon Grey Midnight Green

Neko Case’s new album brings her signature blend of achingly beautiful melodies, idiosyncratic songwriting, and, of course, a song about an animal PopMatters

Neko Case  Neon Grey Midnight Green

The result is Case's finest yet: a record of fire, felling and finely detailed distinction. Print edition only Record Collector

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 Uncut

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