imaginary trip sounds: White Hinterland

De Portland chegam Casey Dienel e Shawn Creeden e os seus White Hinterland. Acabaram de lançar os seu segundo álbum de originais, Kairos. Downbeat, folktrónica, indietrónica, electro-po e diria que também há por aqui umas sombras de trip-hop, passeiam-se por este excelente álbum.

"It is easy to rave about Casey Dienel’s voice, which recalls Joni Mitchell’s eclectic stylistic arsenal as much as Victoria Legrand’s ghostly croon. Even those that do not like her project, White Hinterland, are still enthralled by her voice for a reason. She recalls the classic feel of Mitchell or Joan Baez and gives it a 21st century facelift. Under her fascinating arrangements and textures, Dienel loops her own voice and places them at various positions in the song, positions so infectiously perfect that comparisons to ’60s and ’70s neo-folk becomes imminent. Despite an abundance of influences on her sleeve, Dienel’s grasp of contemporary production techniques has allowed her to mold a style of her own. Along with collaborator Shawn Creeden, her tendencies of structural variation and unconventional accessibility are nearly unsurpassed in the realm of electronic pop. The latter of those tendencies sounds almost like a contradiction, but there are few artists like White Hinterland that are able to make sounds engineered in an unconventional manner appealing to audiences of various tastes. This has only become recently apparent for the project, as their third album Kairos surpasses all its predecessors by containing some of the most genuinely fascinating hooks of the year. It is a release that values atmosphere just as much as hooks though, resulting in a very unique and rewarding listening experience."

White Hinterland - Icarus