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White Hinterland “Lindberghs & Metal Birds”

Casey Dienel’s best songs have a slightly amorphous quality despite her clean arrangements and elegant compositions. “Lindberghs & Metal Birds” bops, skips, and sighs for nearly four minutes, deftly navigating an emotional terrain that is superficially homogenous, but defined by minute shifts in tone that cycle through feelings of dread, levity, resignation, and sorrow. The song is understated, but potent, and its seamless mix of emotions is specific and evocative, capturing a space in the mind where concepts and concerns have not yet congealed into a coherent position, but are just on the verge of tipping into certainty.

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