Neko Case Neon Grey Midnight Green
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Critics' Top Tracks
The standout songs that made critics take notice
An Ice Age
1 mention
Destination
1 mention
Winchester Mansion of Sound
1 mention
Track Ratings
How critics rated each track, relative to this album (0-100). Only tracks that made critics feel something are rated.
Destination
Tomboy Gold
Wreck
Winchester Mansion of Sound
An Ice Age
Neon Grey Midnight Green
Oh, Neglect...
Louise
Rusty Mountain
Little Gears
Baby, I'm Not (A Werewolf)
Match-Lit
What Critics Are Saying
Deep insights from 1 critic who reviewed this album
Critic's Take
Pitchfork praises Neon Grey Midnight Green as a reflective, life-affirming late-career peak where orchestral scope magnifies Neko Case’s most lucid writing. The clear standout is An Ice Age, hailed as one of her finest tracks for its surreal, devastating climax and emotional precision. Destination is framed as a self-pep talk loaded with indelible imagery and an uplifting refrain, while Winchester Mansion of Sound offers a moving tribute to Dexter Romweber with raw, anti-romantic clarity. The title track surges from gentleness to feral dissonance, Tomboy Gold embodies her enigmatic, industrial-organic poetics, and Wreck soars as the grateful, love-struck lead single. Little Gears and Rusty Mountain deepen the album’s themes of humility and renewal, rounding out a set where grief sharpens truth rather than dulling it.
Key Points
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An Ice Age is singled out as one of Case’s finest, marrying surreal imagery to a cathartic orchestral climax.
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The album’s strength lies in grief-forged clarity, vivid dream logic, and orchestral sweep that amplifies Case’s most immediate, life-affirming writing.