Wild Creatures Explained

Wild Creatures
Type:compilation
Artist:Neko Case
Cover:Neko Case - Wild Creatures.jpg
Alt:A photo of Case in a mirror photographing herself
Language:English
Label:ANTI-
Prev Title:Hell-On
Prev Year:2018

Wild Creatures is a 2022 compilation album by American singer-songwriter Neko Case. The retrospective includes songs from her entire solo career—minus debut album The Virginian—as well as a new track and has received positive reviews from critics. Case has promoted the release with custom animations for each song, a series of live-streamed events, and a concert tour.

Reception

Editors at AllMusic chose this as one of their favorite archival releases of the year and rated this album 4.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Mark Deming writing that Case's "body of work that...never fails to impress with her silky but bold vocals, her inventive melodic sense, her atmospheric and evocative arrangements, and lyrics that are deeply personal and artful while also being powerfully direct and emotionally forceful" and he characterized this compilation as "a deeply satisfying sampling from her first 25 years, and it's hard not to believe (or hope) she has another 25 this good still in her". Justin Cober-Lake of PopMatters gave this collection a 7 out of 10, praising the songs, but stating that it "feels like a missed opportunity in a way" due to not displaying the shifts in Case's sound, although he still declared this "a fantastic listen".

Track listing

All songs written by Neko Case, except where noted.

  1. "I'm an Animal" – 2:29
  2. "Lady Pilot" – 2:27
  3. "Halls of Sarah" (Case and Paul Rigby) – 3:52
  4. "Man" (Case and Rigby) – 3:29
  5. "Star Witness" – 5:18
  6. "I Wish I Was the Moon" – 3:34
  7. "The Next Time You Say "Forever"" – 1:47
  8. "Favorite" – 3:44
  9. "Hell-On" (Case and Rigby) – 4:01
  10. "Hold On, Hold On" (Case and The Sadies) – 2:44
  11. "Polar Nettles" – 2:33
  12. "Wild Creatures" – 2:40
  13. "Furnace Room Lullaby" (Case and Travis Good) – 2:56
  14. "A Widow's Toast" – 1:39
  15. "Deep Red Bells" – 4:04
  16. "This Tornado Loves You" – 3:19
  17. "Winnie" (Case and Rigby) – 3:52
  18. "Night Still Comes" – 3:48
  19. "Maybe Sparrow" – 2:37
  20. "Things That Scare Me" (Case and Tom V. Ray) – 2:36
  21. "The Tigers Have Spoken" (Case and The Sadies) – 2:58
  22. "Set Out Running" (Case, Peter Elkas, Ben Gunning, Ryan Myshrall, and Jason Tustin – 2:56
  23. "Oh, Shadowless" (Case and Rigby) – 2:30

See also

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