Casey Dienel, the woman behind experimental pop project White Hinterland, is back with a new record for Dead Oceans. It’s more pop than experimental this time around, and it’s got enough guest artists to make Drake happy, plus it’s got those typical old Top 40 themes of “breaking established rituals and setting out into the unknown.” It’s also called Baby, so there’s that. You can check out lead single “Ring the Bell” below.
“What guest artists?” you might be asking. “Is Ke$ha involved in some way? Bieber? Is it a tribute to Bieber’s career-making hit single?” To which I would say, “Can you get me a glass of water, the mere mention of the artist Ke$ha made me puke.” So no! Ke$ha is not involved! Nor is the Biebs. But Sean Carey (Bon Iver, S. Carey), Neal Morgan (Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan), and Cole Kamen-Green (Beyoncé) are! These fine individuals show up throughout Baby, the first album Dienel recorded in The Glades, the studio she spent five months building in her parents’ basement in Scituate, MA. Dienel spent months teaching herself production, weeding through YouTube tutorials about ProTools and shit, so she could do the followup to 2010’s Kairos (TMT Review) her way. The album drops April 1, and Dienel goes on a super-lengthy US tour right after.
Baby tracklisting:
01. Wait Until Dark
02. Dry Mind
03. Ring the Bell
04. David
05. Baby
06. White Noise
07. Metronome
08. No Devotion
09. Sickle No Sword
10. Live With You
Dates:
02.05.14 - New Haven, CT - BAR Nightclub ~
04.01.14 - San Francisco, CA - Brick & Mortar Music Hall (Woode Shoppe)
04.03.14 - Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Bar
04.05.14 - Norman, OK - Opolis #
04.06.14 - Dallas, TX - Three Links #
04.07.14 - Austin, TX - Holy Mountain #
04.09.14 - New Orleans, LA - Circle Bar #
04.10.14 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree #
04.11.14 - Decatur, GA - Eddie’s Attic #
04.12.14 - Raleigh, NC - King’s #
04.13.14 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel #
04.14.14 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle #
04.16.14 - Le Poisson Rouge - New York, NY #
04.17.14 - Boston, MA - Great Scott #
04.18.14 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore #
04.19.14 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison #
04.21.14 - Pontiac, MI - Pike Room #
04.22.14 - Grand Rapids, MI - Calvin College #
04.23.14 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall #
04.24.14 - Milwaukee, WI - Club Garibaldi #
04.25.14 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center #
04.26.14 - Eau Claire, WI - TBD #
* Brendan Canning
~ Slander
# S. Carey
• White Hinterland: http://whitehinterland.com
• Dead Oceans: http://www.deadoceans.com
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