Neko Case Announces New Nature Newsletter, Shares “Halls Of Sarah (RAC Mix)”

Neko Case has long made her love of nature apparent in her lyrics, and now she'll be channeling that interest into Entering the Lung, a newsletter she will publish via Substack. She describes the emails as “a series of postcards about loving nature and its crazy ways,” with deep-dives into various topics, as well as "in-depth conversations with expert and not-so-expert guests." In a press statement, she continues:

“I’ve always been in love with nature. I have felt ‘outside’ of it for a long time though, which is wrong to me as I’m ‘in it’ more than a lot of people. I live in Vermont, a part known as 'The Northeast Kingdom.' It’s a leftover name from some tourist campaign, but it sounds majestic, which this place really is! In my own personal world, I refer to the forest I live in as 'The Lung.' That name came quietly out of my feelings for the place, and it has no scientific basis whatsoever. It is affectionate shorthand. The Lung makes air, it cleans, it heals, it feeds. It is the place where incredible scenes happen — not for me, but for nature's own reasons and pleasure. The Lung resets my mind and sharpens my senses. I am the least important component of this forest which is very freeing indeed.

I’m going to get weird about it with other excellent people; some who are actually experts and some who just love nature too, like my amazing neighbors here. I want to talk about our goodness, our badness, our hilariousness. I want to talk about art and nature feeding each other. I want to go backward and forward, move laterally, time travel and imagine things, and you are invited.”

Case has also shared the RAC mix of the track "Halls Of Sarah," which originally appeared on her 2018 album Hell On. Listen below, and subscribe to Entering the Lung here.