Neko Case, with Des Demonas, at the Wilbur Theatre, Boston, Oct. 23, 2025.

Overheard among the crowd leaving the Neko Case concert at The Wilbur Thursday night: “She’s got some pipes!” That’s the understatement of the year.

Taking to the unadorned stage — no screens, light shows, or choreography for her, thank you — Case and her five-piece band hung the entire 90-minute show on the miracle of her own voice, and the way she uses it to deliver the dark, dreamy, and sometimes downright weird, misty lullabies that only she could have devised. To say it worked is also an understatement.

It probably didn’t hurt that the artist (abetted by some take-no-prisoners Wilbur ushers) requested that phones be put away for the duration of the show. Without the now-typical sea of screens to harsh the vi

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