Neko Case announces career-spanning comp with new song & tour

Neko Case will celebrate her two-decade-plus long career with a digital-only career retrospective album, Wild Creatures, which features 22 songs from throughout Neko’s career and the new song “Oh, Shadowless.” The album comes out this Friday (4/22) via ANTI-, and a video for the new song will be out that day too. Pre-order and pre-save here. Neko will also have a presentation of the album on her website, and here’s details:

Also on Friday, fans are invited to visit nekocase.com where ‘Wild Creatures’ is expanded in its presentation to feature new and animated artwork by Laura Plansker for each of its 23 tracks. Songs from the compilation will play in real time while scrolling through the site to read short essays and track-by-track commentary from guest contributors celebrating Neko’s two decades of solo work including long time collaborators A.C. Newman, Dan Bejar and M. Ward, culture-defining contemporaries David Byrne, Shirley Manson, Jeff Tweedy and Rosanne Cash and new generations of artists like Waxahatchee, Julien Baker, Kevin Morby, Allison Russell and Margo Price. In addition, folklorist Adrienne Mayor, ANTI- Records president Andy Kaulkin, and longtime New Yorker staff writer & author Susan Orlean also contributed pieces, among many others.

Neko will also celebrate the album with a livestream dubbed Wild Creatures: Live From The Lung, which was recorded from Neko’s home studio in Vermont, on May 19 at 8:30 PM ET for paid subscribers of her weekly Substack newsletter Entering the Lung.

Neko also announced several more tour dates, including NYC-area shows with Sean Rowe on September 6 at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City and September 8 at at Brooklyn Steel. Tickets for all newly-added shows go on sale Friday (4/22). All dates are listed below.

Tracklist
1. I’m An Animal
2. Lady Pilot
3. Halls of Sarah
4. Man
5. Star Witness
6. I Wish I Was The Moon
7. The Next Time You Say Forever
8. Favorite
9. Hell-On
10. Hold On, Hold On
11. Polar Nettles
12. Wild Creatures
13. Furnace Room Lullaby
14. A Widow’s Toast
15. Deep Red Bells
16. This Tornado Loves You
17. Winnie
18. Night Still Comes
19. Maybe Sparrow
20. Things That Scare Me
21. The Tigers Have Spoken
22. Set Out Running
23. Oh, Shadowless

Neko Case — 2022 Tour Dates
04/28 – The Music Hall – Portsmouth, NH ~
04/29 – Higher Ground Ballroom – Burlington, VT ~
5/19 – Wild Creatures: Live From The Lung – Streaming Event For Substack Subscribers
05/28 – Levon Helm Studios – Woodstock, NY ~
05/29 – Levon Helm Studios – Woodstock, NY ~
06/01 – Paramount Theatre – Austin, TX +
06/02 – Paper Tiger – San Antonio, TX +
06/03 – Granada Theater – Dallas, TX +
06/04 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX +
06/07 – Pappy & Harriet’s – Pioneertown, CA #
06/08 – Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay – San Diego, CA #
06/10 – Theatre at the Ace Hotel – Los Angeles, CA #
06/11 – Fremont Theater – San Luis Obispo, CA #
06/12 – The UC Theatre – Berkeley, CA #
06/13 – The Center for the Arts – Grass Valley, CA #
06/15 – Vogue Theatre – Vancouver, BC %
06/16 – Woodland Park Zoo – Seattle, WA %
06/17 – Pioneer Courthouse Square – Portland, OR *
06/18 – Bing Crosby Theater – Spokane, WA %
06/19 – Egyptian Theatre – Boise, ID %
06/22 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO ^
06/23 – The Admiral Theater – Omaha, NE **
06/24 – Sheldon Concert Hall – St. Louis, MO **
08/28 – Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TN ~~
8/29 – Bijou Theatre – Knoxville, TN ~~
09/01 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN ~~
09/02 – Pabst Theatre – Milwaukee, WI ~~
09/03 – Out of Space @ Temperance Beer Co. – Evanston, IL ^^
09/04 – Nelsonville Music Festival – Nelsonville, OH
09/06 – White Eagle Hall – Jersey City, NJ ##
09/07 – Emerson Colonial Theatre – Boston, MA ##
09/08 – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY ##
09/09 – Filene Center at Wolf Trap – Vienna, VA ++
09/10 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA ##
09/12 – Orange Peel – Asheville, NC ##
09/13 – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA ##
9/16 – Alaska Center for the Performing Arts – Anchorage, AK
9/17 – Hering Auditorium – Fairbanks, AK

with Kara Jackson ~
M. Ward +
Leyla McCalla #
Gabby Moreno %
Indigo Girls *
Andrew Bird / Iron & Wine ^
Bendigo Fletcher **
She & Him ++
Disq ~~
Courtney Marie Andrews ^^
Sean Rowe ##