CASEY NEIL AND THE NORWAY RATS "Sending Up Flares" [Single] (fluff and Gravy)
Add Date: 5/2/2023
Release Date: 4/26/2023
FCC: Clean
Formats: NACC Top 200, Submodern, Non-Comm AAA
RIYL: Hayden, The Decemberists, REM, Minus 5
Previous Features:
NPR Live Sessions | Paste Magazine | Rolling Stone | No Depression
The music of Casey Neill & The Norway Rats combines high energy rock rave-ups and haunting lush acoustic reveries built around melodic narrative songwriting. The Norway Rats are a collective of Portland indie all star players whose credits include The Decemberists, Eels, Viva Voce and more. Neill has been touring with the band and solo throughout the USA, Japan, and Europe for more than a decade, performing his songs at venues such as Town Hall in New York, San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, and the Newport Folk Festival. The new Norway Rats record is a major leap forward for the band that No Depression calls "a milestone in Neill and company’s trajectory thus far" while Rolling Stone says " (Neill's) songs mask their complexities beneath a simple, singalong-worthy surface... these swimming waters have serious depth."
ABOUT CASEY NEILL:
- Performed at Newport Folk Festival, also in band for Main Stage Speak Out! set w/ Billy Bragg, Lucius, Nate Rateliff, Margot Price, Jim James, Sharon Van Etten
- 2020 first round band announcements for SXSW
- Solo tour with Alejandro Escovedo in Canada and US
- Consistent touring up and down west coast and Northeast. Southwest and Midwest every couple of years. Roughly 80 shows a year
- Band member/side player in The Minus 5