First Listen: Neko Case, 'Hell-On'
A quarter-century into Case's career, her words still feel intensely personal and utterly oblique, as if she's whispering her darkest secrets in Sanskrit.
by Stephen Thompson
May 24, 2018
1 minute
There are billions of voices in the world, so it's a stretch to call any one of them "peerless." But through seven albums â not to and, and a long-running gig in â has reached a point where her voice conjures a constellation of mixed emotions on its own. Before her words and meanings can be parsed, the sound alone has become shorthand: You feel mystery, hurt and want in every weary, soaring note.
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