brocco Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 DrownedinSound presents: White Hinterland http://www.myspace.com/whitehinterland If you're not acquainted with the music of Casey Dienel and White Hinterland, now's the time to make it so because this is lovely, lovely stuff; latest album 'Kairos' is one of the most wonderous things we've heard in ages. And if you are, you'll know this is a bit of a coup. Biog: White Hinterland is the artist name of Portland, Oregon based Casey Dienel (born March 10, 1985), an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She released her debut album, Wind-Up Canary, in 2006 on Hush Records under her own name. Dienel presently performs and records as White Hinterland, whose first album, titled Phylactery Factory, was released on March 4, 2008, by the independent record label Dead Oceans. "The carefully enunciated instrumentation, breathy intimacy and spatial manipulation of The XX, the looping organic electronics of Animal Collective, the poised and polished R&B vibrato of Dirty Projectors, the brooding, echoing pound and scrape of Burial and the asomatous ebb and flow of Beach House ... A record with frequent moments of measured and finely balanced beauty but also a restive application of shifting textures to create a nuanced patchwork of sounds that keep their piquant flavour with repetitive listening." - DiS (8/10) "This is by leaps and bounds the most stark and atmospheric composition Dienel has released to date, owing more to Beach House's moody languor and Bat For Lashes' dark romanticism than the fragile, perky sounds of her earlier material. The new tone suits her well." - Pitchfork "The jazzy singer-songwriterisms of Casey Dienel’s debut, ‘Wind-Up Canary’, gave no preparation for the baroque worlds conjured by her reinvention as White Hinterland on 2008’s ‘Phylactery Factory’. Equally, those who delighted in unravelling that knotty, brilliant album will emerge dazed and blinking into the wide spaces and sweet melodies of ‘Kairos’. It finds inspiration in R&B, krautrock, ambient and trip-hop. ‘Moon Jam’ chants from the same electro-dreampop spellbook as School Of Seven Bells, while ‘No Logic’ and ‘Bow & Arrow’ don tribal rhythms strongly reminiscent of ’80s 4AD tribal-goth witches Dead Can Dance. It’s the perfect, spring-cleansing album." - NME (8/10) + worriedaboutsatan http://www.myspace.com/worriedaboutsatan "The percussion is manicured yet spritzy, with the baroque cadences of spitting rain. periodic vocal samples are hung about in hazy washes, making it sound a bit like Burial for english-lit majors... They got the album title right-- they've arrived." - Pitchfork "A sumptuous, immersive piece, populated with lonely clicks, earthly organs and stirring synthetic strings. infrequently a voice appears; disembodied, quietly squalling, it is not quite of our world – much like worriedaboutsatan, in fact." - Plan B "it would smack more than faintly on hyperbole to say that this is a pioneering album, regardless of its qualities. i shan't waste any more words on what genre the sea of sound that is Arrivals fits into. let's just call it an hour's worth of creepy, organic, nearly always-tension-building electronic ambience which certainly owes as much, if not more, to the hidden influences as the obvious ones." - DrownedinSound + Antique Doll http://www.myspace.com/antiquedoll + DJs: Secret Diaries / Dash and Blast @ The Harley, 334 Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2HW 8pm £4adv Ticket Outlets: The Harley SeeTickets - http://www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=462823 WeGotTickets - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/75947 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brocco Posted May 26, 2010 Author Share Posted May 26, 2010 Tonight folks! These are some seriously good bands, so give them a listen today and come down. Only £4adv, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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