New White Hinterland - "Dreaming Of The Plum Trees"
22-year old vocalist/pianist/etc. Casey Dienel records as White Hinterland. We received Phylactery Factory, her follow-up to 2006's Wind-Up Canary over the weekend, and have been playing quite a bit ever since. Her stuff's wordy, chirpy, and jazzed-out. Her bookishness is fun -- the name of the first song on Phylactery Factory (maybe a "Piss Factory" nod, or she's just making amulets) is called "Destruction Of The Art Deco House" and she also sings about Napoleon, metal birds (on one of our favorites "Lindberghs + Metal Birds"), Calliope (for one of her bigger Joni Mitchell turns), and small town homecomings with all their streamers. Musically we thought about Jolie Holland at first, and she can trill her scenery-setting words like a Newsom, but this is heavier somehow -- and not just because of the roaring psych guitar line on "Dreaming Of The Plum Trees," which you'll find below.
White Hinterland - "Dreaming Of The Plum Trees" (MP3)
"I fell in love again tonight / my heart bled red as dye / through the floor boards." Maybe it's that sorta Marissa Nadler darkness we're feeling when we talk heavy. (Or, hey, maybe it's the cartoon hyenas ripping apart the cartoon zebra on the album cover.) Whatever the case, we'll keep listening.
Phylactery Factory is out 3/4 on Dead Oceans.
[Photo by Tod Seelie]
Posted at 11:21 AM in MP3
Tags: White Hinterland
Awesome, I've been waiting to see her on here since her first album. Awesome that you guys have caught on.
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Let it be known that the "psych guitar line" is played by Adam Selzer, who produced and engineered this album at his studio in Portland, Type Foundry, and who plays guitar and bass for M. Ward and fronts Norfolk & Western.
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i am loving this song. the artwork is brilliant, too--it's a beautiful cover. their website credits Shawn Creeden.
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It's impossible to send her a friend request on her MySpace. It's also impossible to send her a message telling her you can't send a friend request. She really needs to change her settings.
Also, she stole our band name. Sort of.
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.. . all you have to do is find a friend that you *can* send a message / friend request to - THEN - exchange that friends user id with Casey's [ -or - 5570571].
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@ hinterland
i've sent messages to her in the past--it seemed to go through as she's responded to them. myspace is f*cked anyways from all of the spam. write to Tom.
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at first i thought this was the charlie brown peanuts song.
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I really do love Casey Dienel, and this is promising and exciting. love.
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This is terrible. And she needs to tune her piano.
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I thought it sounded a little like the charlie brown piano song as well, but still loved it. Its fun and light and airy and word.
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