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Neko Case - Deep Red Bells
Picking a song to highlight from the lovely Neko Case’s catalog is more than a little difficult. Starting with “Blacklisted” and continuing to her most recent album, “Middle Cyclone”, she has produced some of the most beautiful and striking Americana music of the decade. ‘Deep Red Bells’ is one of the darkest lyrical tracks that Neko has written, inspired by feelings of vulnerability of being a young woman while the Green River Killer was on the loose in Washington. I have always been chilled by her description of blood in the first verse as “[looking] a lot like engine oil and tastes like being poor and small, and Popsicles in the summer”.
